“We have been able to verify Marlowe’s presence in those three plays strongly and clearly enough. We can now be confident that they didn’t just influence each other, but they worked with each other. Rivals sometimes collaborate.” With a little help from computers and big data, experts are now convinced that Christopher Marlowe deserves credit and should even be listed as a co-author on some of Shakespeare’s works.

+ Narratively: “Every year, half a million brawny bikers descend on one small South Dakota town. This is the first time they hopped off their Harleys to recite Shakespeare.”

+ Here’s a pretty incredible list of words and phrases coined by Shakespeare. (This guy would have killed on Twitter.)