Penn Engineers on their Search for Shakespeare’s Secret Co-Authors

Penn Engineers on their Search for Shakespeare’s Secret Co-Authors

Alejandro Ribeiro, Rosenbluth Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, along with lab members Santiago Segarra and Mark Eisen, have a new technique for comparing authors’ writing styles.

Working with Gabriel Egan, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at De Montfort University and one of the editors of the New Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works, they have used their technique to provide the best evidence yet that all three Henry VI plays contain language written by someone other than The Bard. The leading candidate? Christopher Marlowe.

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