article_snippet.sent: New research indicates that "Double Falsehood," a play first published in 1728 by Lewis Theobald, was actually written more than a century earlier by William Shakespeare Lewis Theobald with help from Lewis Theobald friend John Fletcher.
article_snippet.sent: The match between the 'Double Falsehood' play and William Shakespeare was a landslide.
article_snippet.sent: 33 plays by Shakespeare, nine by Fletcher and 12 by Theobald compared those profiles to the language in "Double Falsehood" and determined that the play's first half was almost entirely written by William Shakespeare, though the second half appeared to be split evenly between William Shakespeare and Fletcher.
article_snippet.sent: "Double Falsehood," also known as "The Distressed Lovers," is based on the "Cardenio" section of Don Quixote, the classic 17th-century novel by Miguel de Cervantes.
article_snippet.sent: British publishers Arden Shakespeare published "Double Falsehood" in 2010 -- for the first time in 250 years -- amid renewed claims by experts that it was William Shakespeare's work.
article_snippet.sent: Hammond studied "Double Falsehood's" authorship from a literary perspective five years ago and found British publishers Arden Shakespeare's DNA evident in the play.