 19th-century critic Charles W. Stork suggested William Rowley as a possible collaborator, though his hypothesis has been rejected due to lack of supporting evidence.Middleton borrowed the main plot of "No Wit" from a 1589 play, a comedy by Giambattista Della Porta titled "La Sorella" ("The Sister").In turn, Middleton's play served as a source for a contemporaneous Latin scholastic play by Samuel Brooke called "Adelphe".