Question: What English translator, poet, and dramatist is the principal contender for co-authorship with William Shakespeare of "Titus Andronicus?"
Context: Titus Andronicus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1588 and 1593, probably in collaboration with George Peele.  It is thought to be Shakespeare's first tragedy, and is often seen as his attempt to emulate the violent and bloody revenge plays of his contemporaries, which were extremely popular with audiences throughout the 16th century. Revenge tragedy (less commonly referred to as revenge drama, revenge play, or tragedy of blood) defines a genre of plays made popular in early modern England.  Ashley H. Thorndike formally established this genre in his seminal 1902 article "The Relations of Hamlet to Contemporary Revenge Plays," which characterizes revenge tragedy "as a tragedy whose leading motive is revenge and whose main action deals with the progress of this revenge, leading to the death of the murderers and often the death of the avenger himself."  Thomas Kyd's "The Spanish Tragedy" (c.1580s) is often considered the inaugural revenge tragedy on the early modern stage.  However, more recent research extends early modern revenge tragedy to the 1560s with poet and classicist Jasper Heywood's translations of Seneca at Oxford University, including "Troas" (1559), "Thyestes" (1560), and "Hercules Furens" (1561).  Additionally, Thomases Norton and Sackville's play "Gorbuduc" (1561) is considered an early revenge tragedy (almost twenty years prior to "The Spanish Tragedy").  Other well-known revenge tragedies include William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" (c.1599-1602) and "Titus Andronicus" (c.1588-1593) and Thomas Middleton's "The Revenger's Tragedy" (c.1606). George Peele (baptised 25 July 1556 – buried 9 November 1596) was an English translator, poet, and dramatist, who is most noted for his supposed but not universally accepted collaboration with William Shakespeare on the play "Titus Andronicus". Titus is a 1999 Italian-American-British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's revenge tragedy "Titus Andronicus", about the downfall of a Roman general.  Starring Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange, it was the first theatrically-released feature film adaptation of the play.  The film was made by Overseas Filmgroup and Clear Blue Sky Productions and released by Fox Searchlight Pictures.  It was the film directorial debut of Julie Taymor, who co-produced and wrote the screenplay.  It was produced by Jody Patton, Conchita Airoldi and executive produced by Paul G. Allen. Gelder appeared in the TV movie of "Rumpole of the Bailey" as Rumpole's university lecturer son.  He has also played many other roles on stage and screen.  His stage work includes "The Low Road" (2013).  From May to July 2014 he performed as Marcus Andronicus, brother of Titus, in Lucy Bailey's revival of her original 2006 production of Titus Andronicus at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. Titus Andronicus is the main character and tragic hero in William Shakespeare's play of the same name, "Titus Andronicus", a Senecan tragedy.  Titus is a Roman nobleman and a general in the war who distinguished himself in ten years of service against the Goths.  Despite his exemplary service the war's toll on him is sufficient that he declined the emperorship.  Nonetheless, he begins the play as an exemplary citizen.  However faith in the traditions of the Roman system of government eventually leads to his death as others seek revenge. The authorship of "Titus Andronicus" has been debated since the late 17th century. " Titus Andronicus", probably written between 1588 and 1593, appeared in three quarto editions from 1594 to 1601 with no named author.  It was first published under William Shakespeare's name in the 1623 First Folio of his plays.  However, as with some of his early and late plays, scholars have long surmised that Shakespeare might have collaborated with another playwright.  Other plays have also been examined for evidence of co-authorship, but none has been as closely scrutinised or as consistently questioned than "Titus".  The principal contender for the co-authorship is George Peele. Joseph Jomo Pierre, also credited as Joseph Pierre, is a Trinidadian-Canadian actor and playwright.  He is best known for his 2013 play "Shakespeare's Nigga", a play which explored racism by recontextualizing two Moorish characters from the plays of William Shakespeare, Aaron from "Titus Andronicus" and Othello from "Othello", as slaves actually owned by Shakespeare in real life.  The play was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2013 Governor General's Awards.  His prior plays include "Born Ready", "BeatDown" and "Pusha-Man", all of which were published by Playwrights Canada Press in the anthology "BeatDown: Three Plays" in 2006. Titus Andronicus is an American punk/indie rock band formed in Glen Rock, New Jersey in 2005.  The band is composed of singer/lyricist/guitarist Patrick Stickles, guitarist Liam Betson, bassist R.J. Gordon, and drummer Chris Wilson.  The group takes its name from the Shakespeare play "Titus Andronicus", and has cited musical and stylistic influences such as Neutral Milk Hotel and Pulp. "The Lamentable and Tragical History of Titus Andronicus," also called "Titus Andronicus' Complaint," is a ballad from the 17th century about the fictional Roman general, Titus, and his revenge cycle with the Queen of the Goths.  Events in the ballad take place near the end of the Roman Empire, and the narrative of the ballad parallels the plot of William Shakespeare's play "Titus Andronicus".  Scholarly debate exists as to which text may have existed first, the ballad or the play (indeed, there is a third potential "Titus Andronicus" source, a prose history published in chapbook form during the 18th century).  The ballad itself was first entered on the Stationers' Register in 1594, the same year the play was entered.  Surviving copies of the ballad can be found in the British Library, in the Huntington Library, and at Magdalene College, Cambridge.  Online copies of the facsimiles are also available for public consumption at sites such as the English Broadside Ballad Archive.
Answer: George Peele