There is no direct attribution of authorship in any contemporary source. Francis Kirkman, the Restoration era printer, attributed the play to Thomas Middleton in 1661. Thomas Dekker was first linked to the play by the scholar E. H. C. Oliphant in 1926.
The original text does not provide clear evidence of authorship. However, Francis Kirkman, a printer from the Restoration era, credited the work to Thomas Middleton in 1661. Subsequent researcher E. H. C. Oliphant linked the play to Thomas Dekker in 1926.