Did the Bard work with Kyd to write Edward III?
October 12, 2009 by Debra Murphy
Filed under Bard Bio
A London Times article reports results of a computer program which would indicate that the Bard worked in tandem with Thomas Kyd to write Edward III:
The 400-year-old mystery of whether William Shakespeare was the author of an unattributed play about Edward III may have been solved by a computer program designed to detect plagiarism.
Sir Brian Vickers, an authority on Shakespeare at the Institute of English Studies at the University of London, believes that a comparison of phrases used in The Reign of King Edward III with Shakespeare’s early works proves conclusively that the Bard wrote the play in collaboration with Thomas Kyd, one of the most popular playwrights of his day.
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