Shakespeare news!

Just in time for our first meeting, Oxford University Press has announced that Christopher Marlowe is credited as official co-author of the Henry VI plays for the first time in The New Oxford Shakespeare: Critical Edition.

Gabriel Egan, one of the volume editors and author of a forthcoming article in Shakespeare Quarterly on the subject of Shakespeare's collaborations, discusses how technology has enhanced the practice of textual analysis and created the new field of digital humanities:

To read more about the news and the history of scholarship (and conspiracy theories) surrounding Shakespearean authorship, check out the feature by Rebecca Hersher on NPR's The Two-Way.