ABSTRACT
Dewar M. Robb favours 1610 because of similarities to Thomas Heywood’s works. William Rowley and Heywood collaborated on Fortune by Land and Sea, published in 1655 as acted by the Queen’s Men. This is usually taken to refer to Queen Anne’s Men, in whom Heywood was a sharer and for whom Rowley is thought to have acted, rather than Queen Henrietta’s Men. Fortune by Land and Sea is thus dated about 1609, and A Woman Never Vext, according to Dewar Robb’s theory, is of roughly the same period. I. A. Shapiro has pointed out that the Clown’s ‘Tittere Tu Tattere’ at 2.1.323 is a reference to a Catholic association formed in the regiment of Lord Vaux while it was serving in the Low Countries. This regiment was created after April 1622; on December 6th, 1623, Chamberlain wrote to Dudley Carleton of the Tityre-tus and said that they had come to London, ‘the number of eight score already knowne’.
