Shakespeare, Co-Author A Historical Study of Five Collaborative Plays

This major new study asks the question, "how much do we know about Shakespeare's collaborations with other dramatists?", and sets out to provide a detailed evaluation of the claims made for Shakespeare's co-authorship of Titus Andronicus , Timon of Athens , Pericles , Henry VIII , and The Two Noble Kinsmen . Through an examination of the processes of collaboration and the methods used in authorship studies since the early nineteenth century, Brian Vickers identifies a coherent tradition in attribution work on Shakespeare.

Brian Vickers is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow in the School of Advanced Study, London University.