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 source lacks explicit attribution of authorship. However, Francis Kirkman, a printer from the Restoration era, assigned the work to Thomas Middleton in 1661. Later researcher E. H. C. Oliphant established a connection between the play and Thomas Dekker in 1926.