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Marlowe May Be the Pen Behind 2 Shakespeare Plays

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19940601
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LONDON Two of William Shakespeare's early plays may have been the work of his contemporary, Christopher Marlowe, according to a computer review of their prose styles.

Two researchers - computer scientist Robert Matthews and literary scholar Thomas Merriam - used a "neural network" computer which was programmed to learn from experience.

They let the computer loose on Shakespeare's "Henry VI Parts Two and Three" and then on two anonymous plays, "The Contention" and "The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of Yorke," that are widely regarded as being the works of Marlowe.

Merriam said: ...

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