 Its title page assigns the play to Webster and Rowley.This quarto was the only edition of the play's publication printed before the nineteenth century.Nineteenth-century scholars and critics (notably F. G. Fleay) disputed the attribution to Webster and Rowley but following the lead of Edmund Gosse most twentieth-century commentators have accepted the original authorial assignment, with Webster as the author of the serious main plot, and Rowley responsible for the comic subplot.