{"id":50893,"date":"2026-10-18T15:46:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T15:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/scholars-conclude-beyond-doubt-that-shakespeare-was-main-author-of-edward-iii\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T15:46:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T15:46:05","slug":"scholars-conclude-beyond-doubt-that-shakespeare-was-main-author-of-edward-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/scholars-conclude-beyond-doubt-that-shakespeare-was-main-author-of-edward-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholars conclude \u2018beyond doubt\u2019 that Shakespeare was main author of Edward III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Play anonymously published in 1596 was collaboration between Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, according to computer analysis<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic new evidence concludes that the play Edward III should be added to William Shakespeare\u2019s canon, and also that it was a major collaboration with his contemporary rival Christopher Marlowe.<\/p>\n<p>The history was published anonymously in 1596, and it has long been thought that Shakespeare wrote at least a few scenes. However, Dr Rory Loughnane, a leading scholar and co-author of the research, told the Guardian that computerised textual analysis pushed the case \u201cbeyond any reasonable doubt\u201d that the Stratford-born playwright was the principal writer.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2026\/oct\/18\/scholars-conclude-beyond-doubt-that-shakespeare-was-main-author-of-edward-iii\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Play anonymously published in 1596 was collaboration between Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, according to computer analysis Dramatic new evidence concludes that the play Edward III should be added to William Shakespeare\u2019s canon, and also that it was a major collaboration with his contemporary rival Christopher Marlowe. The history was published anonymously in 1596, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 18:25:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}