Publication
The play was entered into the Stationers' Register on 18 May 1631, and was published later that year, in a quarto printed by Thomas Harper for the booksellers Godfrey Edmondson and Thomas Alchorne. This first quarto, printed in two states, contains an Epistle to the Earl of Middlesex, signed "Geo. Chapman." The play was reprinted in 1653; the title page of Q2 states that the play was performed at the Blackfriars Theatre, necessarily by the King's Men — though there is no confirmation of this from another source. It has been argued that the work was never staged — and conversely that it was, "possibly with Shakespeare in the cast," and perhaps influenced Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra.
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