Oct 25 2016
Ending years of speculation (or perhaps simply fueling more), Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe is to be credited as co-author on Oxford University Press editions of three of Shakespeare's plays after researchers verified Marlowe's contribution "strongly and clearly enough", according to editor Gary Taylor.
Twenty-three international scholars were involved in the research which identified 17 of 44 Shakespeare plays as being co-written with others. The plays that will now list Christopher Marlowe as co-author are Henry VI Parts I, II and III.
"We can now be confident that they didn't just influence each other, but they worked with each other. Rivals sometimes collaborate," said Taylor.
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