Claim: William Shakespeare wrote Titus Andronicus.
Evidence: His extant works , including collaborations , consist of approximately 38 plays , 154 sonnets , two long narrative poems , and a few other verses , some of uncertain authorship.
Some of the following attributions , such as The Two Noble Kinsmen , have well-attested contemporary documentation ; others , such as Titus Andronicus , are dependent on linguistic analysis by modern scholars ; recent work on computer analysis of textual style -LRB- word use , word and phrase patterns -RRB- has given reason to believe that parts of some of the plays ascribed to Shakespeare are actually by other writers.
As a child , Shakespeare would likely have seen this type of play -LRB- along with , perhaps , mystery plays and miracle plays -RRB-.