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In modern times, it has been claimed that Shakespeare contributed one or more scenes, and in a recent essay in this journal, Gary Taylor argued that Thomas Watson (1555\u201392) wrote at least one scene. There are several problems with this attribution. As noted elsewhere, Watson was an eminent neo-Latin scholar and no record exists of him ever writing English plays for the Elizabethan theatres. Taylor attributes one \u2018theatrical work\u2019 to him, but this was a welcoming oration that Watson wrote for Queen Elizabeth\u2019s visit to the Earl of Hertford at Elvetham in 1591, a one-off event, which does not resemble a play. In this essay, I examine Taylor\u2019s use of stylometric evidence. I show that his algorithm is designed to favor Watson, with his small canon, by calculating the number of words per hit. Despite Taylor\u2019s repeated dismissal of Kyd\u2019s authorship, I point out that his searches of other authors identified thirty-five matching passages with Kyd\u2019s plays. Finally, I adduce recently available evidence that strongly confirms Kyd\u2019s authorship of the whole play.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/llc\/fqaa067","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,19]],"date-time":"2020-11-19T21:46:50Z","timestamp":1605822410000},"page":"580-593","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["<i>Arden of Faversham<\/i>, the authorship problem: Shakespeare, Watson, or Kyd?"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"37","author":[{"given":"Brian","family":"Vickers","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"University of London School of Advanced Study , UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"2022053116092133100_fqaa067-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"35","DOI":"10.1093\/notesj\/gjj120","article-title":"Thomas Watson: new birth year and privileged ancestry","volume":"53","author":"Alihari","year":"2006","journal-title":"Notes and Queries"},{"key":"2022053116092133100_fqaa067-B2","volume-title":"Thomas Watson: New Biographical Evidence and his Translation of Antigone","author":"Alihari","year":"2006"},{"key":"2022053116092133100_fqaa067-B3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"157","DOI":"10.1093\/llc\/fqt028","article-title":"Language chunking, data sparseness, and the value of a long marker list: explorations with word n-grams and authorial attribution","volume":"29","author":"Antonia","year":"2014","journal-title":"Literary and Linguistic Computing"},{"key":"2022053116092133100_fqaa067-B4","volume-title":"Thomas Watson, Poems","author":"Arber","year":"1895"},{"key":"2022053116092133100_fqaa067-B6","volume-title":"Ovid Amores 1","author":"Barsby","year":"1973"},{"key":"2022053116092133100_fqaa067-B7","volume-title":"Intellectual culture in Elizabethan England. 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