Does anybody really believe that the ingenious, hyperdynamic, self-confident and highly superior poet Genius and Playwright who wrote Hamlet, was a „team player“ and willing or able to collaborate with "inferiors" ?
this does not make enough sense.
It is said from →Brian Vickers Professor (Emeritus,2003) at →ETH Zurich to have brought clarity to the old question of Shakespeare's work with co-authors.
In Vicker‘s " →Shakespeare, Co-Author" (Oxford University Press, 2002), with numerous tests by many generations of scholars (examining factors like rhetorical devices, polysyllabic words, metrical habits etc), Vickers claims that he has been able to identify reliably a substantial contribution or collaboration by other playwrights in five Shakespeare plays, even when the early editions did not give credit to them.
George Peele, a third of "Titus Andronicus";
Thomas Middleton about two-fifths of "Timon of Athens";
George Wilkins, two of the five acts of "Pericles" ;
John Fletcher, more than half of "Henry VIII."
two-fifths of "The Two Noble Kinsmen,"
A reasonable opposition is likely not going to disappear, ridiculing Vickers efforts and denying the presence of any other hand than Shakespeare’s in the Canon.
Vickers seems to have noticed that he navigated between Skylla and Charybdis, between Stratfordian tradition and new thinking, approaching the authorship territory, when he wrote: " The issue of simultaneous collaboration or not is hard to settle,…But, I’d be very unhappy to think that my exposure of Shakespeareans‘ Shilly-Shallying on the coauthorship issue were to be exploited by the so called Anti-Stratfordians“.
→Niederkorn ( New York Times Sept.2nd 2003
Vickers seems halfway to have lost his intuition and deviated from the right track. Primarily there are no objections against his remarkable discoveries of "contextual and linguistic blocks" in Shakespeare‘s plays also appearing in texts of authors named Peele, Middleton(Thomas), Wilkins and Fletcher(John). His elaborate observations are correct, yet his interpretations seem to be inadequate.
The significant and non-coincidental results only at a first glance indicate, that Shakespeare collaborated with these authors. But at a second glance, the basic assumption ("premiss") that the true Poet-Genius impossibly can have been the man from Stratford, but concealed his identity and wrote behind obscure initials, masking names of living [like Shakespeare,] or deceased persons or pseudonyms like Middleton Peele Wilkins and Fletcher leads to a more plausible interpretation:
Does anybody really believe that the ingenious, hyperdynamic, self-confident and highly superior poet Genius and Playwright who wrote Hamlet was a „team player“ and willing or able to collaborate with "inferiors" ?
Because of very many reasons this will not make enough sense.
Vickers seems to anticipate implicitly that on the long run his results will only be accepted by accepting and solving the authorship problem. The "True Shakespeare [→Marlowe]", forced to fake his death and to abandon identity and name, for safety reasons wrote under a multiplicity of obscured initials, pseudonymous or names of real subjects (living or deceased)
Vickers seems halfway to have lost his intuition and deviated from the right track. Primarily there are no objections against his remarkable discoveries of "contextual and linguistic blocks" in Shakespeare‘s plays also appearing in texts of authors named Peele, Middleton(Thomas), Wilkins and Fletcher(John). His elaborate observations are correct, yet his interpretations seem to be inadequate.
The significant and non-coincidental results only at a first glance indicate, that Shakespeare collaborated with these authors. But at a second glance, the basic assumption ("premiss") that the true Poet-Genius impossibly can have been the man from Stratford, but concealed his identity and wrote behind obscure initials, masking names of living [like Shakespeare,] or deceased persons or pseudonyms like Middleton Peele Wilkins and Fletcher leads to a more plausible interpretation:
Does anybody really believe that the ingenious, hyperdynamic, self-confident and highly superior poet Genius and Playwright who wrote Hamlet was a „team player“ and willing or able to collaborate with "inferiors" ?
Because of very many reasons this will not make enough sense.
Vickers seems to anticipate implicitly that on the long run his results will only be accepted by accepting and solving the authorship problem. The "True Shakespeare [→Marlowe]", forced to fake his death and to abandon identity and name, for safety reasons wrote under a multiplicity of obscured initials, pseudonymous or names of real subjects (living or deceased)
