Lost labour bears mark of the real Shakespeare

thetimes.co.uk - There’s a woman dressing up as a man, there’s unrequited love and there’s a heck of a lot of iambic pentameter. Some would say that the authorship should never have been in doubt.

Even so, the claim by researchers yesterday that a textual analysis of a long-disputed play proves that it really is by William Shakespeare is sure to cause double double toil and trouble among scholars.

To be or not to be has long been the question when it comes to Double Falsehood. The play is, at least in part, the work of an 18th-century Shakespearean scholar, Lewis Theobald