Saturday, February 25, 2017

For Those Interested: Attributing the Henry VI plays to Marlowe and Shakespeare

I've posted a link below to a podcast about recent computer scholarship that seems to authenticate Marlowe's hand in Shakespeare's early Henry VI plays, which are now being jointly credited to him. Needless to say, many are very resistant do seeing Shakespeare as a co-creator of anything, but the evidence continues to mount: http://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited/christopher-marlowe-attribution-henry-vi

The questions for Tuesday's reading are posted below. 

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Link to my Cleopatra article, "Cleopatra, Content Queen: Shakespeare's Viral Monarch in Antony and Cleopatra"

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