Using plagiarism-detection software, Sir Brian Vickers, a professor of literature at University of London, has discovered a new play co-written by William Shakespeare. Authorship of The Reign of Edward III, a play from the late 1500s, has been the subject of debate among scholars for centuries. Employing the software Pl@giarism, Vickers was able to compare strings of words in this play with those in Shakespeare’s known body of work and discovered an overlap of 200 such phrases. Similarly, this method was used by Vickers to determine the identity of Shakespeare’s co-author of the play, namely Thomas Kyd, a successful playwright who was one of the Bard’s contemporaries. Read more about this discovery at http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091020/us_time/08599193097100 (hb)