(223) Do you expect us to believe.....that the text parallels between Shakespeare, Marlowe and Sandys are accidental?

What does The Sandys- Parallels may mean 

What that is all about?

George Sandys Travelbook 1615

Prof.Jonathan Bate

Stratfordian Shakespeare Expert Prof. Jonathan Bate dealt in his Shakespeare MOOC course (lesson 5-8 -Okt.2014) with Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice".- He mentioned George Sandy‘s „Travel Book“ Book (1615) [„A relation of a Journey begun An.Dom 1610“] with some very thoughtful remarks about the Jews..-

 Unfortunately Prof.Bate  didn’t realize , that George Sandys cannot have been only a common (travel)book writer  but a poet and a type of universal genius with an impressive ability for free poetic translations from latin to english and  with  an immense knowledge, who must have written this text between between 1611-1615, a time when Shakspere from Stratford  (in his late forties) was still alive but is said to have already retired….

                   You will not expect us to believe that the amount of observed 

word and text parallelism 

                                        between Sandys and Shakespeare on the one hand,  

                                      and between Sandy’s and Marlowe on the other hand

                                                    are purely coincidental. 

 

What a pity, that Shakespeare expert Prof.Bate did not give an explanatory hint to us [the uninformed and ignorant] what does that may mean or what that is all about?

http://marlowe123.blogspot.de/2008/02/parallelisms-shakespeare-sandys.html

http://marlowe123.blogspot.de/2008/02/parallelisms-marlowe-sandys.html

(222) Should we imagine William Shakespeare as a highly gifted plagiarist??

In the „Merchant of Venice“ Shakespeare must have extensively plagiarized„ from Marlowe‘s „Jew of Malta“. 

Jonathan Bate

Stratfordian Shakespeare Expert Prof. Jonathan Bate dealt in his Shakespeare MOOC course (lesson 5 -Okt.2014) with Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice".-

According to Henslowe’s diary Marlowe’s »The Jew of Malta« has been staged February 1592. It was registered 1594 in Stationers’ Hall, but printed only 40 years later (1633). 

(221) William J.Ray and the imagined sacred geometry of Edward de Vere in the Droeshout portrait.

A „post festum“ interpretation with a too broad range of arbitrariness, whimsicalities and improbabilities,

 which  cannot be accepted by a scientific community

 for methodological reasons alone.

Lately "Oxfordian" William J.Ray produced a film (click video below)  explaining in detail the hidden messages of the Shakespeare Droeshout portrait as a  sacred  geometry for Edward de Vere , 17th Earl of Oxford .
I assume, that many can agree with William Ray‘s first part of

his [printed] conclusion,

that no real living person got portrayed in the Droeshout portrait and that the true author remained invisible and anonymous. 

But I am buffled and confused and by no means  convinced with the second (witty) part that „Oxfords identity is fixed secretly in the First Folio title [picture] for all times“, only comprehensible for a singular brain .... 

Who would have inspired the 21 year old dutch painter Martin Droeshout to implement such a wealth of concealed symbolisms of a poet he didn‘t know and who died many years before? 

This a „post festum“ interpretation with a too broad range of arbitrariness, whimsicalities and improbabilities, which can never be accepted by a scientific community for methodological reasons alone. What a shame.

Please note, that not even the first part of Rays acceptable assumption [the true author of the portrait remained invisible and anonymous] has generally been accepted up to now .-

Instead of interpreting invisible secret messages, why Ray doesn't begin with interpreting visable messages of assymetries (1 different hair length, 2 right stiffening collar line missing, 3 straight and round doublet line , 4 distant and adjacent line of bordure, 5 double chin line) most likely indicating [metaphoracally] a masque and two body halfes, a front view[right] and a back view[left].

VIDEO (Vimeo)

---->         The Secret Evidence of Who Wrote the Shakespeare Canon

(220) Shakespeare Authorship of Henry V: How many indications are needed for a Circumstancial Evidence?

Quarto 3 of Henry V  ( published in 1619 [with a false date of  Q3-1608)

  had 1623 lines, the First Folio 3227 lines. 

How to explain this discrepancy?

Q3 the last of the 3 Quartos of Henry V (Q1-1600, Q2-1602 )  published in 1619 [with a false date of  Q3-1608 — part of William Jaggard's False Folio]

                                    had 1623 lines, the First Folio 3227 lines. 

The only reason or motive – i can see - to completey redo the play decades after its creation must have been the occasion of the publication that warranted a carefull finishing hand to produce a final authorized text in the First Folio 1623 , with the new title "The Life of Henry the Fifth".

There are  serious difficulties to imagine why, when and if at all (a decade in advance of the first folio??) the retired Shakspere (not at all involved in the First Folio 1623) felt the need to restructure and add additional 1604(!!) lines .

The most plausible explanation is, that 

 the additions for the First Folio 1623  were written by  surviving Christopher Marlowe  (alias the "true" Shake-speare, with  many  other pseudonyms) .

 (See als Blog 118)