"If Marlowe did survive his own murder there is no limit to what he can be supposed to have done later." (John Michell 1966)
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John Michell (1933-2009) English writer and philosopher, wrote a monograph on the Shakespeare authorship problem "Who wrote Shakespeare" (1996). Washington Post : "The best overview yet of the authorship question "
Chapter VIII ("The professional Candidate"), dealing with Christopher Marlowe, closes with a remarkablesentence:
If he [Marlowe] really did survive his own murder there is no limit to what he can be supposed to have done later.
This sentence hides the whole authorship problem: only if one is willing to tear down the boundary of a "self-made limit", you will be able to understand what an impressive literature Marlowe / alias Shakespeare wrote under various alias-names or pseudonyms .
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Chapter VIII ("The professional Candidate"), dealing with Christopher Marlowe, closes with a remarkablesentence:
If he [Marlowe] really did survive his own murder there is no limit to what he can be supposed to have done later.
This sentence hides the whole authorship problem: only if one is willing to tear down the boundary of a "self-made limit", you will be able to understand what an impressive literature Marlowe / alias Shakespeare wrote under various alias-names or pseudonyms .
