Rollo Duke of Normandy - Authorship

Authorship

Scholars have been divided about the nature of the play's authorship. Some have regarded it as a play that was originally written by Jonson and Chapman and later revised by Fletcher and Massinger; while this scheme makes a good deal of sense, others have disputed it. In his sweeping study of authorship problems in the Fletcher canon, Cyrus Hoy provided this breakdown among the shares of the four dramatists —

Massinger — Act I; Act V, scene 1 (lines 1-90);

Massinger and Fletcher —Act V, 1 (remainder) and 2 (first part);

Fletcher — Act II; Act III, 1 (middle portion) and 2; Act V, 2 (second part);

Chapman — Act III, 1 (excluding middle portion); Act IV, 3;

Jonson — Act IV, 1-2.