William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays
As the companion to the UK best-seller, The RSC Shakespeare: Complete Works, William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays brings together the hotly disputed body of plays known as 'The Shakespeare Apocrypha' for the first time in over one hundred years.With claims and counter-claims for Shakespeare's authorship being made, discussed and disputed, leading Shakespeare scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen present detailed reasoning for all of the inclusions and exclusions of these plays. As the first ever Shakespeare collection to include the 1602 edition of Thomas Kyd's pioneering play The Spanish Tragedy, this ground-breaking volume marks a recognition of Shakespeare as a working man of the theatre and a collaborative author, not simply a solitary genius.
- William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays was awarded the Falstaff Award for Best Book of 2013.