 Fletcher's sources were two books on exploration, "L'histoire de Ruis Dias, et de Quixaire, Princess des Moloques," a novella by Le Seigneur de Bellan (1615), which derives from the "Conquista de las Islas Molucas" by Bartolemé Leonardo de Argensola (1609).Like many of Fletcher's plays, this play was revived in the Restoration era in adapted forms.The play was adapted four times, by an anonymous author, by Nahum Tate, by Thomas d'Urfey, and again by Peter Anthony Motteux, the latter being the more successful.