This anonymous Elizabethan play about the struggle between the Saxon King Edmund Ironside (son of Ethelred the Unready) and the Danish King Canute was discovered only in the 19th century, as a unique copy in a collection of texts inherited by the British Museum from a private collection. A few Shakespeare scholars consider this to be an early work of the Bard, based on the inclusion of certain words first used by Shakespeare, or rare words used by him. These scholars also consider that this bears some similarity to Titus Andronicus, not least in the level of bloody violence in the script. However, the attribution of this play to Shakespeare is not widely accepted by scholars, and I am not convinced myself; it seems crude and some of the lines cringe-inducing, even for an early work by the Bard. The fact that it was never mentioned in his lifetime also seems to tell against its authorship. That said, the anachronistic inclusion of an Earl of Southampton might raise one's eyebrows! ( )