The play must have been written by late 1606. Additionally, scholars generally agree that the play is indebted to Samuel Harsnett’s Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures and John Florio’s 1603 translation of Montaigne’s Essays., placing the date of composition as somewhere between March 1603 and December 1606. A further possible source for the play has evoked some disagreement however.
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