‘Answere to this perillous time’: Ideological ambivalence inthe raigne of king Edward IIIand the english Chronicle plays

Did William Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd Write Edward III?

“…We expect Kyd's authored chunks to appear in the upper-right-hand corner, and ones furthest away (bottom-left-hand corner) to be Shakespeare's works. The similarity plot ( Figure 3) highlights twoclusters, and we assign Kyd's authorship toone ( chunks 1,2,5,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,18,19 ) and Shakespeare to the other ( chunks 6,8,15,16,17 ).Chunks 3 and 4 sit outside but also indicate Kyd.…”

“…The similarity between Shakespeare and Kyd's work is small (cosine 21.96%, minmax 18.29% or~79.9% dissimilar) so Shakespeare's authored chunks will sit closer to the upper-right-hand corner. The similarity plot (Figure 4) highlights a Shakespeare cluster (chunks 6,8,11,15,16,17), and a Kyd cluster (chunks 1,2,4,5,7,9,12,13,14,18,19). Chunks 3 and10 sit outside and are more like Kyd on the cosine measure and ambiguous on the minmax measure.…”

“…The Reign of King Edward III (Edward III) was first published in 1596 and is of uncertain authorship (Slater, 1988). However, it is a new addition to the Shakespeare canon, and even while there is a suggestion that Shakespeare is not the sole author, he is considered to be a significant one (Shakespeare, & Melchiori, 1998).The idea that the work might be Shakespeare's was first suggested by Edward Capell in 1760 (Champion, 1988). Many others have offered their own candidate from the list of popular playwrights of the time since then, including that the 19 scenes within itare all Shakespeare's, but more recently, Brian Vickers, using plagiarism detection software, has suggested that Thomas Kyd is the major author with Shakespeare having a lesser role (Vickers, 2014).…”