Researchers have verified Marlowe's contribution "strongly and clearly enough", editor Gary Taylor said. But this marks the first time he has received an official credit.
Scholars working on New Oxford Shakespeare, a collection of all of Shakespeare's known works, said his collaboration with other playwrights was more extensive than has previously been known.
The research, by 23 international scholars, has identified 17 of 44 Shakespeare plays as being co-written with other authors. The new research involved both traditional textual analysis and the use of computerised tools to examine the scripts. Gary Taylor, one of the New Oxford Shakespeare's general editors, told The Guardian : "We have been able to verify Marlowe's presence in those three plays strongly and clearly enough. Rivals sometimes collaborate. Carol Rutter, professor of Shakespeare and performance studies at the University of Warwick, told BBC News: "It will still be open for people to make up their own minds.
And of course, these doubts about reliability also apply to the work Freebury-Jones cites in favour of his alternative attributions. Ultimately we have to return to the detailed work presented in published articles and books.
By my count, Freebury-Jones mentions three experts other than himself who support his views on the authorship of the Henry VI plays. None of them has published their work on this topic in an article or a book as far as I am aware.
Edition: Available editions United Kingdom. Become an author Sign up as a reader Sign in. An artwork by James C. Christensen, which represents Shakespeare with characters from all of his plays.
Hugh Craig , University of Newcastle. The sceptics. But it's also possible that none of the Wilmot story is true. The anti-Stratfordian theory became popular in the late 19th century Whether or not Wilmot really invented the anti-Stratfordian theory, it first took off in a big way in , when Delia Bacon no relation to Francis and William H.
The anti-Stratfordian theory is glamorous, exciting, and beloved by celebrities William Shakespeare, the idea goes, was no one but a mediocre actor from the middle of nowhere who was paid off by someone smarter and richer and better-educated for the use of his name. Or it was a whole group of people! Maybe it was all of them? The education question is a smokescreen for the real issue for anti-Stratfordianists: class.
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Hating work is having a moment By Rani Molla. Animals need infrastructure, too By Ben Goldfarb. Sign up for the newsletter Sign up for The Weeds Get our essential policy newsletter delivered Fridays. Give Give. Some are said to be collaborations, with Shakespeare apparently working side-by-side with other writers, as with Marlowe on Henry VI. Taylor said these editions of the Henry VI plays are the first to identify Marlowe as the co-author. The findings shed new light on the supposed rivalry between Marlowe and Shakespeare.
Rivals sometimes collaborate. It includes the complete works in both original and modern spelling and punctuation, explanatory notes and essays and an authorship companion, with research in attribution studies. Among texts that have never before been in a complete works of the Bard is Arden of Faversham, which was anonymously published in Now it is jointly credited to anonymous and Shakespeare.
There is very strong, compelling evidence.
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