Shakespeare's Double Falsehood

New research suggests the play "Double Falsehood" was primarily authored by William Shakespeare, not Lewis Theobald, as had been thought.

Theobald's 1727 version claimed that it had been originally authored by Shakespeare, but he produced his own version from 3 Shakespeare manuscripts that had subsequently been lost in a library fire. But it appears he overstated his own contribution, which according to the latest research, was minimal.


In The Daily Beast, Malcolm Jones calls it "the Bard's unc...