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  • Scholars conclude ‘beyond doubt’ that Shakespeare was main author of Edward III

    10/21/2026 6:13:49 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 15 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 10/18/2026 | Dalya Alberge
    Edward III did not appear in the 1623 first folio collection of Shakespeare’s plays. Loughnane edited it for the 2016 New Oxford Shakespeare: Complete Works, acknowledging that a couple of scenes had probably been written by him, and the play had also appeared in a 2005 volume. Loughnane also co-authored the Canon and Chronology study in the New Oxford Shakespeare: Authorship Companion, which made the case for Shakespeare’s part-authorship... Rather than attributing particular lines to either author, the study focused on linguistic features and the distribution of certain “marker” words, such as “martial”, which are typically present in Marlowe’s plays...