In many ways, online role-playing games are venues of collaborative play not instigators.
We're identifying it as an early collaborative play of Shakespeare's.
In multi-player games there is already a lot of collaborative play, even inside the kill-and-shoot environments.
A collaborative play cycle entitled The Legacy of Cain was the focus of The Living Theatre's performances in the 1970s.
"You could have Peele, Nashe, anybody else as a dumping ground," Eric Rasmussen, who co-edited the R.S.C. editions of Shakespeare's complete works and his collaborative plays, told me over the phone.
Still, says Dr Brett, that's all part of learning to socialise: "Collaborative play is fundamental to Lego therapy as it is the avenue within which appropriate social interaction is taught, facilitated and practised.
It was at his suggestion that Eldridge and Stephens joined him on the four-year adventure of composing the collaborative play A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky, which was eventually produced at the Lyric, Hammersmith in 2010.
Gary L. Taylor, the co-editor of the Oxford Shakespeare with Stanley Wells in 1986 noted that co-authorship credit had been given there for four of the plays and that, based on other research, in the future " 'Titus' will be treated in the same way as the other collaborative plays".
Collaborative play was found to significantly increase cooperation in both violent and neutral video games.
However, the level of gaming experience tended to moderate the relationship between collaborative play and the level of cooperation.
