A fresh look at Shakespeare

From The New Yorker: "It's no longer controversial to give other authors a share in Shakespeare's plays — not because he was a front for an aristocrat, as conspiracy theorists since the Victorian era have proposed, but because scholars have come to recognize that writing a play in the 16th century was a bit like writing a screenplay today, with many hands revising a company's product. The New Oxford Shakespeare claims that its algorithms can tease out the work of individual hands. But … the canonization of Shakespeare has made his way of telling stories — especially his monarch-centered view of history — seem like the norm to us, when there are other ways of telling stories, and other ways of staging history, that other playwrights did better."