13 Feb 2015

(45) The strange subjunctive on Peter Fareys Marlowe Web title

Peter Farey  a "Marlovian"  ? ; .

          .too discouraged, too coward  or too tired ? 

          ...had it not been ....he would have...
             had it been ....       he would not have




Peter Farey can be seen as one of the world leading experts on Marlowe's life and history. His Homepage on Marlowe is the most comprehensive compilation of all the facts gathered around Marlowe's life and death..

Yet the core title  of his informative  Website tells us ultimately, that Marlowe was not Shakespeare. : He would have equalled him , if he had not have a sudden and fearful end of his life.

How dit it come about that Peter Farey  does not trust his own insights?    Was he too discouraged, to cautious, too  biased , too fainthearted, too ....?

Or did he try to hide something behind the strange (subjunctive) lines   ?

( ...had it not been ....he would have)


                                                  Peter Farey as Lord Bockhurst