Finally, writer gets credited as Shakespeare’s official co-author

Christopher Marlowe, long suspected by William Shakespeare scholars to have worked closely with the Bard, has been credited as a co-author on a new edition of Shakespeare’s plays, published by Oxford University Press. Huff Post reported.

The Guardian UK reported that: "Using old-fashioned scholarship and 21st-century computerised tools to analyse texts, the edition’s international scholars have contended that Shakespeare’s collaboration with other playwrights was far more extensive than has been realised until now."

The publisher estimates that up to 17 of Shakespeare’s plays weren’t lone works of genius, but brilliant collaborations.

Marlowe will be listed as co-writer of the three “Henry VI” plays.

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