Though not claiming anything like chronicle accuracy, the play does demonstrate a clearly assured dramaturgy in coping with its many plot twists. There is also a curious 'chaining' effect as characters replace each other in turn within a setting. The tentative dating of the play as 1600 is undermined by the many liftings from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear. Curiously too it anticipates strong thematic elements of James I/VI court and reign.
