A Wife for a Month in June 1623 and could not have been cast in a 1624 production. Commentators have suggested this Tooley's name may be a mistake for that of John Lowin, or else that Fletcher may have drawn up the cast list when he was writing the play; the cast list would therefore reflect the author's intention rather than the onstage reality. Since Fletcher functioned as a house dramatist for the King's Men in the final phase of his career, this idea, while speculative, is not impossible. Fletcher's solo authorship of the play is undisputed. "A Wife for a Month" was revived during
A Study in Emerald of Gaiman's short story collection "Fragile Things," in the collection "New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird", and is available online. The online version takes the form of a Victorian periodical or newspaper, which includes various advertisements that reference characters such as Vlad Tepes, Victor Frankenstein, Spring Heeled Jack, and Dr. Jekyll. In the introduction to "Fragile Things", Gaiman cites Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe, Kim Newman's "Anno Dracula" series (which Gaiman helped create), and Alan Moore's "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" as being the major influences of "A Study in Emerald". The story begins with its (as yet) unnamed narrator,