So, the New Oxford Shakespeare credits Christopher Marlowe as co-author of the three Henry VI plays.

Well, actually fourteen more plays get co-authoring credits by someone else, and Arden of Faversham is added to the Canon, as well as one added scene in Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy…  But – probably because he is more widely known, and because of the Authorship rumours ever since Ziegler – the idea of Kit Marlowe having had a hand in the Henrys is doing most of the splash.

“Happy now?” asked Davide Mana of Karavansara – who has little sympathy for Kit Marlowe. Continue reading →