Gelferts shabby arguments(3+4) to reject the Marlowe / Shakespeare thesis
Gelferts judgment reflects not only the size of his prejudice, but also his marginal knowledge of Marlowe
"William Shakespeare in his time " (Jan.2014 Beck Verlag)
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| B.Conrad The true Shakespeare: Chrsitopher Matloer 5th Ed 1616 S.Video below (engl Summary) |
that he felt compelled, to counteract the ongoing global authorship debates, e.g. of the Marlowe Thesis of B.Conrad "The true Shakespeare: Christopher Marlowe " (2nd Edition , December 2013 ) ..he shortly summarized five arguments against the Thesis. To this end he used consistently his own prejudice. For none of his five arguments it would have been necessary to open and tackle the arguments of the book.
Argument 3
Nowhere in Marlowe's work, there is a touch of humor, while Shakespeare ..... .. among the Great in this field ..
....that's pure 19th century, , it would be easy, to show Gelfert as many humorous or comic places in Marlowe's works, .. ..especially his hilarious verse-games;
R.H.Fletcher (1918 Historie of Engl Literature ' Marlowe.2 .., in almost all his plays, and following the Elizabethan custom, does attempt scenes of Humor"), see also Robert Logans „Shakespeare's Marlowe“ (2007) .
Argument 4
".. Even with female figures nothing can be found in Marlowe that can stand the comparison with Shakespeare.
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Gelfert judgment reflects not only the size of his prejudice, but probably also his marginal knowledge of Marlowe, when you consider just Marlowes female figures such as "Dido" oder "Hero & Leander " in his much smaller work.
Gelfert cannot have opened the book even once.
Gelfert cannot have opened the book even once.
Engl Video- Summary of the german Non-fiction book
The true Shakespeare: Christopher Marlowe
