sentences:  The play was entered into the Stationers' Register on 31 October 1610 and published anonymously in the same year by George Eld for the bookseller Thomas Thorpe.Marston's connection with the play is accepted unanimously, though scholars and critics have disputed the extent of Marston's authorship, some holding that Marston revised an older play that originated around 1589.The play is a moral allegory about human nature that shows through a series of symbolic scenes how society is led into war and destruction through pride, greed, and sloth.