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Big Debate About Shakespeare Finally Settled By Big Data

By The Washington Post
October 25, 2016
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For many, many years, scholars have wondered whether William Shakespeare's plays were actually written by Shakespeare, or at least if they were written solely by the man we now colloquially refer to as the Bard.

Now, for the first time and with a bit of help from computers and big data, the Oxford University Press will add Christopher Marlowe as a co-author in all three "Henry VI" plays (Parts 1, 2 and 3).

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