Christopher Marlowe credited as Shakespeare’s co-writer

Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe is to be credited by Oxford University Press as Shakespeare’s co-writer on three of the Bard’s plays.

Marlowe has long been suspected in some quarters of having a hand in some of Shakespeare’s works.

The two dramatists will now jointly appear on the title pages for the Henry VI plays in New Oxford Shakespeare.

Researchers have verified Marlowe’s contribution “strongly and clearly enough”, editor Gary Taylor said.