Great Regulars: Scholars have known about this claim for centuries.

Many have discounted Theobald, who, to be kind, was less than Shakespearean. Some just figure it's all a hoax, a forgery.

Well, move over, Hamlet. An edition of Double Falsehood was published yesterday in England as part of the eminent Arden Shakespeare series. The U.S. edition will appear on May 17. Brean Hammond, professor of English at the University of Nottingham in England, showed Arden his decade of literary detective work--and the publisher was persuaded.

We're not talking about proof. Just about being convinced there's a chance. And both Hammond and the Arden folks say, guardedly, that they are. "There could be Shakespeare here," says Richard Proudfoot, general editor of the Arden series.

from John Timpane: Philadelpia Inquirer: The stamp of Shakespeare's on it

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