 Critics and scholars who have attempted to differentiate the shares of the two collaborators in the play have not reached a full consensus, though the general tendency has been to attribute the romantic main plot of Mary Fitz-Allard largely to Dekker, and the Moll Cutpurse subplot mainly to Middleton.David Lake, in his study of authorship problems in Middleton's canon, produces the following division of authorship.Lake also favors the view of Fredson Bowers that the play was printed from a manuscript in Dekker's autograph.