caa a22 4500 386383898 CHVBK 20180307112052.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0307883300005526 doi S0307883300005526 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0307883300005526 Carson Neil University of Guelph Collaborative Playwriting: The Chettle, Dekker, Heywood Syndicate [Elektronische Daten] [Neil Carson] That a large number of Elizabethan plays are the product of dramatic collaboration is well known. Just how this process of ‘collective creation' operated in the public theatres, however, remains something of a mystery. Attempts to explore the mechanics of collaborative play writing have been of different kinds. The most common have been studies of published plays undertaken in the hope that characteristics of style would reveal the shares of contributing dramatists. In spite of valuable work (notably by Cyrus Hoy), however, too many of these studies suffer from the weaknesses described by Samuel Schoenbaum in his analysis of the limitations of conclusions about authorship based on internal evidence. As a consequence, assertions about patterns of collaboration based on the identification of an author's stylistic characteristics, such as those made in the early 19205 by Dugdale Sykes, are not as fashionable as they once were. Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1989 Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 14/1(1989), 13-23 0307-8833 14:1<13 1989 14 TRI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300005526 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300005526 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Carson Neil University of Guelph NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 14/1(1989), 13-23 0307-8833 14:1<13 1989 14 TRI CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge