Marie Axton (1995), 'Summer's Last Will and Testament: Revels' End', in John Guy (ed.), The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 258–73.

Revels at Tudor schools and universities, and at the Inns of Court, belonged to Christmas. Their raison d'etre sprang from the festive calendar; their literary, social and historical significance remained closely tied to those holidays. The fear of revels' end swept down 'out of the nippe of the north' during the final decade of Elizabeth's reign. My subject is this Elizabethan fear rather than the end occasioned by the execution of Charles I and Commonwealth revision of the festive calendar. 1 The customs themselves are well documented. 2 I shall look at the transmutation of fin de siecle fears about revels' end in Thomas Nashe's Summer's Last Will and Testament, a play printed in 1600 and probably written and performed in 1592.