Marlowe's Hand in Edward III
Thomas Merriam · Literary and Linguistic Computing · 1993
Although contemporary critical thought favours Shakespearian authorship of the anonymous play Edward III, a stylometric investigation of two adjacent scenes indicates that they are anomalous in regard to stable patterns in the First Folio. They are anomalous in a way which parallels the way in which the two Tamburlaine plays are anomalous to the Shakespeare Folio. An examination of the textual content reveals that Marlovian authorship of the two scenes is not beyond the bounds of literary credibility.