(480) Shakespeare the adorable teamplayer? The inability of "Stratfordian Experts“ to imagine unimaginable solutions!

 Is absurdity even possible to increase?

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Gary Taylor

The Guardian  on October 23 reported , that  Shakespeare’s collaborative work is even greater than  estimated over the last decades. - Using computerised text tool analysis 23 US/english academic Shakespeare scholars have contended that Shakespeare‘s collaboration with other playwrights  was far more extensive than has been realized before.

Shakespeare expert Gary Taylor told the Guardian that they underestimated the amount of Shakespeare’s collaborative work: In 1986  8 (>20%) of 39 plays were identified on their title pages as collaborative, in 2016 it were 17 of 44 Plays (>38%)

Henry VI parts 1, 2 and 3 are among those  plays that they now believe contain writing by Christopher Marlowe: 

They had been able to verify Marlowe’s presence strongly  and clearly enough.- Gary Taylor:  We can now be confident that they [Marlowe & Shakespeare] didn’t just influence each other, but that they worked with each  other. "Rivals sometime collaborate“
We have added   evidence from  phrases that occur in the passage being tested. Marlowe’s works contain many more such parallels than any other playwright,” Taylor added.

How could such an absurd/ bizarre assumption of  "Shakespeare as a teamplayer"(s.Blog 448)  arise, derived exclusively on statistical contextual analysis.  - Is absurdity even possible to increase?

No one to this day can imagine and has systematically checked, wether most of  the supposed co-authors (such as Peele, Munday, Heywood, Dekker, Middleton, Fletcher , Wilkins, Chettle   [and others]) were pseudonyms or taken as pennames from living or deceased figures by the true author, alias Marlowe [read Summary]

Gary Taylor Professor of English Florida State University