Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/23/2010: "Well, move over, Hamlet. An edition of Double Falsehood was published yesterday in England as part of the eminent Arden Shakespeare series. The U.S. edition will appear on May 17. Brean Hammond, professor of English at the University of Nottingham in England, showed Arden his decade of literary detective work - and the publisher was persuaded.
We're not talking about proof. Just about being convinced there's a chance. And both Hammond and the Arden folks say, guardedly, that they are. 'There could be Shakespeare here,' says Richard Proudfoot, general editor of the Arden series."
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I'm a little confused why suddenly scholars have decided that "there's a little Shakespeare there" when for so long it was decided that the author was Lewis Theobald. I have always had an issue as to how much of Shakespeare's work was actually written by him, and this article, which I feel openly admits that people are unsure, is going to make a lot more people question this as well. I am glad, however, that people are admitting that they are unsure, rather than assuring us that they are positive.
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