sentences:  Scholars agree that 1592 is the one year that best matches these references.The play was not performed by professional adult actors in one of the London theatres, which in any case were closed due to the plague epidemic in 1592.References and allusions in the play suggest that the drama was staged in Croydon at Croydon Palace, the manor house of the Archbishops of Canterbury; the Archbishop at the time was John Whitgift.