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Computer Software Proves Shakespeare Co-Authored Plays  April 6,
2011, 12:00 AM  What's the Big Idea?  When CBS’s crime scene
drama CSI became the most-watched show on TV in 2002, many other
networks developed a crime scene drama of their own. This isn't
much different from what happened in Elizabethan times, as
certain genres such as histories or bloody revenge tragedies
suddenly came into vogue, often based on the success of a
particular stage production. One such trend-setting production
was Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy (1587), a play that has
long been noted for its influence on William Shakespeare's
Hamlet. What hasn’t been realized until recent times is the
possibility that Shakespeare revised the play for a revival in
1599.  Sir Brian Vickers, a literary scholar and author of
Shakespeare, Co-Author is out to change a