Scholars from various fields weigh in
on Marlowe and Shakespeare's secret.
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| Film director : Eike Schmitz |
The Public German Television ZDF Enterprises Documentary (2011)
"The Shakespeare Enigma" (English Video-Trailer) <-- click
(Director: Eike Schmitz )
is the first high-gloss program of its kind to examine a highly controversial topic: Who was William Shakespeare, and did he write the works we associate with his name?
Among the most interesting candidates advanced by scholars as the "real" dramatist is Christopher Marlowe, a successful author and secret agent of Queen Elizabeth I.
Shakespeare's first plays weren't performed until after Marlowe's early death in 1593 at the age of 29 in a sordid pub brawl in D e p t f o r d, by the River Thames, East of London. Until now this has seemed to rule out Marlowe as a candidate for the writer of Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet and King Lear.
But in this documentary biography and history specialists of Atlantis-Film explore the plausible thesis:
Christopher Marlowe faked his own death to avoid arrest and possible execution by Elizabeth I's ministers. This freed him to devote his life to literature, using actor-manager William Shakespeare as his straw man drawing on his own life's experiences for at least some of his subject matter!
High-budget re-enactments and shooting on original locations sketch an image of the golden age of Elizabethan theater. And scholars from various fields weigh in on the question of Shakespeare's secret.
High-budget re-enactments and shooting on original locations sketch an image of the golden age of Elizabethan theater. And scholars from various fields weigh in on the question of Shakespeare's secret.
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