Middleton & Rowley Forms of Collaboration in the Jacobean Playhouse

‘In this welcome study of working relationship between two early modern playwrights, David Nicol fuses new approach with old....This approach produces fascinating and often persuasive insights.’

"Nicol combines this critical project with a survey of different ways of imagining collaborative authorship prompted by the Middleton-Rowley canon... Nicol’s study is an important inquiry into the practises of collaborative authorship and a major contribution to recognizing Rowley. Nicol largely avoids the risk of defining the sense of each author’s creative disposition too narrowly, and his carful scholarship illustrates the productive insights to be gained from pursuing a separationist approach."