Research by Professor Laurie Maguire (pictured right) and Dr Emma Smith, from the University of Oxford’s English Faculty, suggests that the playwright Thomas Middleton, a contemporary of Shakespeare’s, appears to be the likely candidate. For more information please follow this link.
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