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Thank goodness our e-mail addresses have changed since the days of Shakespeare 101, or we’d be getting big, fat “I told you so’s” from our college professors. For as many years as he’s been studied, scholars have raged about whether or not Shakespeare had collaborators (or snatched some language from playwrights of his day). However, Sir Brian Vickers at the University of London says he can now prove that Shakespeare got a hand, by using modern-day plagiarism technology.
Vickers took ‘Pl@giarism,’ a program meant to detect whether or not students have been cheating, and took phrases from ‘Edward III,’ a play attributed to Shakespeare, and matched them against other dramatic pieces. According to Vickers, 60-percent of the play’s phrases are reminiscent of Shakespearean contemporary Thomas Kyd, while only 40-percent suit the Bard himself, leading the professor to conclude that ‘Eddy Three’ is mostly a work of Kyd’s.
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