“…Further, the resurgence of authorship studies, including the foundation of the London Forum for Authorship Studies in 2005 (the first regular seminar devoted to the methodology of attribution work), has seen a plethora of new work on plays of disputed authorship including by Brian Vickers ( Arden of Faversham , Fair Em , Edward III ), Hugh Craig and Arthur Kinney ( Arden , Edmond Ironside , The Spanish Tragedy ), Ward Elliott and Robert J. Valenza ( Edward III , Thomas More ), MacDonald Jackson ( Arden ) and others. The plays have even been reappropriated recently for the cause of authorship conspiracy theories, with writers such as Sabrina Feldman arguing that the Apocrypha were genuinely written by William Shakespeare of Stratford‐upon‐Avon, while the canonical plays were the work of Thomas Sackville, and John Raithel and John Casson arguing that they reveal the authorship of William Stanley and Henry Neville respectively. The orthodox scholar will scoff, but the fascination that the plays hold reminds us that the division between Canon and Apocrypha is neither as absolute as their varied treatments suggest, nor is dissolved enough to allow us to simply ignore the value judgements that have blighted the plays.…”