(43) Shakespeare and Marlowe with such a gradient of sovereignity ! intended??

Shakspeare (Joseph Fienne) and Marlowe (Rupert Everett)

 with such a gradient of sovereignity and competence?

"Shakespeare in love"  -  Why Marlowe was so superior? 

Rupert Everett                                                 Joseph Fienne

In the Blockbuster "Shakespeare in Love" (see the following scene) Marlowe (Rupert Everett) is very superior to Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) ,  Shakespeare irresolutely and dependent  on Marlowe's ideas.

What may have motivated the director of the movie  to depict the two poets with such a gradient of sovereignty and competence?

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