Why they invited Will Self, who confessed his complete ignorance on Marlowe?
May 29th 2012, on the occasion of an official launch event of her new novel in verse "The Marlowe Papers, author Ros Barber Ph.D. spoke along with Shakespearean scholar Prof. Bill Leahy and writer Will Self in the British Library (listen to the Video below)
In Barbers fiction book, playwright Christopher Marlowe is revealed as the true author of Shakespeare's plays.
In a general discussion about the Marlowe /Shakespeare Theory Prof.Bill Leahy pointed out:
"The academic class have – if you like- owned Shakespeare, let’s say, for the last 60 years or whatever, and may be that the Shakespeare authorship question that people are interested in , are a marker of the change that is happening (- that is to say-) a lot of independent scholars, non academics are (in a way –if you like-) challenging academic knowledge and in many ways are typicall for what’s going on in our society and that the traditional figures of authority are much more readily challenged whether that’s a doctor, wether that’s a policeman, wether that’s an academic, and perhaps the part of reason for academics getting so worked up about the Shakespeare authorship question is that they feel challenged – if you like – they loosing ownership of something they regard as theirs…"
Will Self
(who wanted to know how many in the audience were doubters of the Shakespeare's autorship) took an inofficial vote by handlifting. At least half of the audience were doubters! Self early declared, that he finds the "Marlovian totally unconvincing",
Self's judgment sounds preposterous since he replied to Leahy's first Question: Is this a different Marlowe [Ros Barber's] to the Marlowe, you thought you know? .....
I didn't know Marlowe at all , I don't think anybody does, i think he is a late 16th century writer, i mean in what sense can you know him...
In Barbers fiction book, playwright Christopher Marlowe is revealed as the true author of Shakespeare's plays.
In a general discussion about the Marlowe /Shakespeare Theory Prof.Bill Leahy pointed out:
"The academic class have – if you like- owned Shakespeare, let’s say, for the last 60 years or whatever, and may be that the Shakespeare authorship question that people are interested in , are a marker of the change that is happening (- that is to say-) a lot of independent scholars, non academics are (in a way –if you like-) challenging academic knowledge and in many ways are typicall for what’s going on in our society and that the traditional figures of authority are much more readily challenged whether that’s a doctor, wether that’s a policeman, wether that’s an academic, and perhaps the part of reason for academics getting so worked up about the Shakespeare authorship question is that they feel challenged – if you like – they loosing ownership of something they regard as theirs…"
Will Self
(who wanted to know how many in the audience were doubters of the Shakespeare's autorship) took an inofficial vote by handlifting. At least half of the audience were doubters! Self early declared, that he finds the "Marlovian totally unconvincing",
Self's judgment sounds preposterous since he replied to Leahy's first Question: Is this a different Marlowe [Ros Barber's] to the Marlowe, you thought you know? .....
I didn't know Marlowe at all , I don't think anybody does, i think he is a late 16th century writer, i mean in what sense can you know him...
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Ros Barber Bill Leahy Will Self
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The Marlowe Papers - Shakespeare, Authorship & Identity
