{"id":389,"date":"2016-10-25T21:40:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T01:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/?p=389"},"modified":"2016-10-25T21:40:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T01:40:15","slug":"scholars-use-big-data-to-show-marlowe-co-wrote-three-shakespeare-plays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/2016\/10\/25\/scholars-use-big-data-to-show-marlowe-co-wrote-three-shakespeare-plays\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholars use Big Data to show Marlowe co-wrote three Shakespeare plays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new edition of William Shakespeare&#8217;s complete works will name Christopher Marlowe as co-author of three plays, shedding new light on the links between the two great playwrights after centuries of speculation and conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n<p>Marlowe will be listed as co-author of the three Henry VI plays in the New Oxford Shakespeare, due to be published in several installments over the coming weeks by the Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shakespeare has entered the world of Big Data and there are certain questions that we are now able to answer more confidently that people have been asking for a very long time,&#8221; Gary Taylor, one of the project&#8217;s senior editors, told Reuters. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-britain-shakespeare-marlowe-idUSKCN12O1QE\">Read more&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-390\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/files\/2016\/10\/shakesp.png\" alt=\"shakesp\" width=\"750\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/files\/2016\/10\/shakesp.png 750w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/files\/2016\/10\/shakesp-300x177.png 300w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/files\/2016\/10\/shakesp-624x369.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new edition of William Shakespeare&#8217;s complete works will name Christopher Marlowe as co-author of three plays, shedding new light on the links between the two great playwrights after centuries of speculation and conspiracy theories. Marlowe will be listed as co-author of the three Henry VI plays in the New Oxford Shakespeare, due to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}