Two tough nuts to crack: did Shakespeare write the 'Shakespeare' portions of Sir Thomas More and Edward III? Part I

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.…”

Canonising the Shakespeare Apocrypha: Shakespeare, Middleton and Co‐Existent Canons

“…In 2010 alone it was possible to see productions of Arden of Faversham , A Yorkshire Tragedy and Double Falsehood in London. Further, the resurgence of authorship studies, including the foundation of the London Forum for Authorship Studies in 2005 (the first regular seminar devoted to the methodology of attribution work), has seen a plethora of new work on plays of disputed authorship including by Brian Vickers ( Arden of Faversham , Fair Em , Edward III ), Hugh Craig and Arthur Kinney ( Arden , Edmond Ironside , The Spanish Tragedy ), Ward Elliott and Robert J. Valenza ( Edward III , Thomas More ), MacDonald Jackson ( Arden ) and others. The plays have even been reappropriated recently for the cause of authorship conspiracy theories, with writers such as Sabrina Feldman arguing that the Apocrypha were genuinely written by William Shakespeare of Stratford‐upon‐Avon, while the canonical plays were the work of Thomas Sackville, and John Raithel and John Casson arguing that they reveal the authorship of William Stanley and Henry Neville respectively.…”