Various attempts have been made to disentangle the shares of the three authors to whom the Eastward Ho is assigned on the titlepage—Chapman, Ben Jonson, and Marston. “J.C.” in a notice of Eastward Ho contributed to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (September, 1821) made a few vague suggestions. Jonson had not the chief part in the writing; it has no bold delineation of character, no highly wrought finish of dialogue, and none of his peculiar richness of humour. “Neither, on the other hand, is it distinguished by his hardness,” such as overelaboration of character. “The style bears more resemblance to that of Chapman,” but Jonson probably first sketched the plan and revised the whole; he can be traced in the character of Touchstone and in the concluding scenes.