Why Shakespeare did not participate in the extreme amount of literary "book genres" of contemporary writers of his age ?
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Regard for a moment key words of book-titles of some of those literary book-genres taken from "Early English Books Online! (->EEBO)
"Key words" of contemporary book-titles
Academy, Adventures, Advocate, Anatomies, Annales, Answers, Anthologiae, Appeal, Apologies, Anti-romances, Apothegmes, Arraignments, Atropoion, Banquets, Bookes, Caveats, Challenge, Chronicles, Complaints, Compendium, Conceates, Confutations, Considerations, Consolations, Controversies, Cures, Declarations, Defenses, Delightes, Description, Devises, Dialogues, Dictionairies, Dirge, Discoverie, Discourses, Egloges, Elegies, Elements, Emblemes, Encomiums, Epigrams, Epitaphes, Epistles, Essaies, Examinations, Expositions, Fancies, Fictions (Moral), Fragmenta, Funerals, Histories, Hymnes, Humours, Instructions, Itinerariums, Invectives, Lamentations, Laws, Legends, Lettres (and anwers to letters), Madrigales, Meditations, Memoratives, Messages, Mirrour, Miscelanea, Miseries, Motives, News, Novelles, Odes, Orations, Observations, Pamphlet, Parables, Paradoxes, Paraphrastical Transcripts, Pastoralls, Passions, Philosophies, Practike, Principles, Poems, Poetical Comparisons, Portraitures, Prayses (Praises), Psalmes, Questions, Quodlibets, Recantations, Recreations, Register, Remarks, Remedies, Repliques, Resolves, Resolution, Rhapsodies, Sacrifice, Satyres, Scourges, Sermons, Similies, Sonetts, Songs, Summons, Survey, Tales, Tears, Theoricke, Tracts, Transcripts, Translations, Treasuries, Treatises, Triall, View, Visions, Vox, Warnings, Workes, and many more ...
the amount of names of authors, writers, poets, translators etc. For these book genres, who lived and wrote in the age of Shakespeare (....and whose writings are available digitally today- eg.EEBO) is even more extreme.
Look at an excerpt of author-names of contemporaries of Shakespeares age. (between 1580-1640)
( ) = considered as Shakespeare candidates in literature [ ]= discussed as pseudonyms of Marlowe/Shakespeare in The Marlowe Book
Author-names of contemporaries of Shakespeare
••• A: Thomas Adams, Edward Aggas, Matheo Aleman, William (Alexander), Edward Allen, Robert Allott, Lancelot {John?}(Andrewes), Oliver Almond, Anonymous /Ignoto, Martin Aray, Robert Armin, Archie{bald} Armstrong, Roger Ascham, Robert Ashley, Robert Aylett ••• B: Francis (Bacon), William Bacster, Thomas Bancroft, John{William?} Barclay, , Willam Barksted, William Barley, Barnabe ([Barnes]), Richard ([Barnfield]), Robert Barret, Lordling {Lodowick?} Barr{e}y, William [Basse], Thomas [Bastard], John Bate, William Bathe, Thomas Be, Francis{+John}[Beaumont], Thomas [Beedome], Thomas Bell, John Benson, Richard Bernard, Matthieu Beroald, Charles {William?} [Best], John [Bodenham], Edmund Bolton, John Boys, John Bradford, Thomas Bradley, Thomas Bradshaw, Samuel [Brandon], Richard [Brathwaite], Nicholas [Breton], Timothie Bright, Richard [Brome], Christopher Brooke, Hugh {Richard} Broughton, William [Browne], Lodowick [Bryskett], George Buc{k}, Edward Buckler, Samuel Buggs, Robert{Willam?} (Burton), Charles Butler, Nicholas Byfield, ••• C: Thomas Campion, Thomas {Richard} [Carew], George Carleton, Ralph Carr, Elisabeth Cary, Thomas Cartwright, Isaac Causabon, John Case, Robert Cawdr{a}y, John Chalkhill, John Chamber, George [Chapman], Bartholomew Chappell, Bartholomew Chappel, Robert [Chester], Henry Chettle, Henry Chillester, Thomas [Churchyard], Anthony [Chute], John [Clapham], Willam [Clarke], John Clavel, Giles Clayton, Robert Cleaver, John Cleveland, Peter [Colse], Anthony Colynet, Henry Constable, Thomas [Combe], Thomas Cooper, Anthony Copley, Richard {J0hn Edward?}Corbet, Jeremy Corderoy, Thomas Corneille, William Cornwallis, Thomas Coryate, Richard Cosin, John [Cotgrave], Roger{Clement} Cotton, Alexander Craig, Ra{l}ph [Crane], Richard Crompton, Henry [Crosse], Thomas Culpeper, ••• D: Robert Daborn, Samuel ([Daniel]), John {William} [Davenant], John [Davies], Francis [Davison], Robert {Lancelot} Dawes, John{Angel?} [Day], Thomas ([Dekker]), Thomas Deloney, Arthur Dent, John [Dickenson], Kenelm Digby, John Dod, John (Donne), Anne Dowriche, Thomas Drant, Michael ([Drayton]), John Dunbar, Edward (Dyer),Jeremiah Dyke ••• E: John Earle, Thomas{Richard?} Edwards, John {Thomas} Eliot, William Est, Henri {Charles} Estienne, ••• F: Edward Fairfax, Thomas {Giles?} Farnaby, Owen Felltham, Dudley Fenner, Richard Ferris, Nathaniel Field, Theophilus Field, Jasper Fisher, Charles Fitz-Geffrey, Richard Flecknoe, Giles{Anthonie}John [(Fletcher)], John (Florio), Thomas [Floyd], John{Emanuel?}[Ford], Simon Forman, Edward Forset, Abraham [(Fraunce)], Thomas [Freeman], John Fregeuille, ••• G: William [Gager], Dunstan Gale, Samuel Gardiner, Robert Garnier, George Gascoigne, Robert Gentilis, Charles [Gibbon], Henry Glapthorne, William Goddard, Francis Godwin, Thomas [Goffe], Arthur Golding, Thomas{George?} Goodwin, Barnabe Googe, Stephen Gosson, Robert Greene, Richard Greenham, Edward Gresham, Fulke (Greville), Bartholomew ([Griffin]), Mathew Grove, Elizabeth Grymeston, Edward [Guilpin], ••• H: William Habington, Roger Hacket, Richard Hakluyt, Joseph {John} Hall, John [Harington], William Harrison, Gabriel Harvey, Richard Hasleton, Francis Hastings, , Robert Hayman, William Heale, John Heath, William Hemings, Robert [Herrick], Hervey of Kid-brooke, Peter Heylyn, Thomas ([Heywood]), John Higgins, Thomas Hill, Henry {Hugh?Philemon?} Holland, Francis Holyoake, Richard Hooker, Job Hortop, Anthony {John?} Hoskins James Howell, Juan Huarte, Francis [Hubert], William Hubbock, Thomas Hudson, John Hull, Alexander{Tobias?} Hume, William Hunnis, Leonard Hutten ••• I: Hugh Ince, ••• J: Henry Jacob, Richard James, William {John?} Jewell, Thomas Jones, William Jones, Richard Johnson, Ben Jonson, ••• K: William Kemp, Timothe Kendall, Henry King, Thomas Kyd ••• L: John Lane, Aemilie Lanyer, William Leigh, William{Alexander} Leighton, John Leland, Nicholas Lesse, Christopher Lever, Lewis Lewkenor, Jaques[Le Doux], Richard Linche, Thomas [(Lodge)], Donald -Thomas? [Lupton], John Lydgate, John Lyly, ••• M: Lewis [Machin], Gerrard de Malynes, Roger (Manners), Gervase {Francis?}[Markham], Francis Marbury, John [Marston], Robert Mason, Philip [Massinger], Tobie ([Mathew]), Thomas [May], John May, John {Albrecht?} Mayer, Brian Melbancke, Francis [Meres], Thomas {Christopher} ([Middleton]), Peter Moffett, Henry More, Miles Mosse, Philip Mournay, William [Muggins], Richard Mulcaster, Anthony (Munday), Christopher Muriell, ••• N: Thomas Nabbes, Thomas Nash, Robert Naunton, Giovanni Nenna, Henry (Neville), Thomas Newton, Richard Niccols, Samuel Nicholson, Anthony Nixon, John Norden, Thomas (North), Richard{William?} Nugent ••• O: Christopher Ocland, John Ogle, Thomas [Overbury], John {Thomas} [Owen], Lewis Owen ••• P: Samuel Page, John {Henry?} Paget, Claude Paradin, Martin Parker, Robert Parsons, Henry Parrot, Simon Patericke, Thomas Paynell, Henry [Peacham], George (Peele), William Percy, Willam{Samuel?} Perkins, Bonaventure Des Periers, Bonaventure Des Periers, Robert Peterson, Henry [Petowe], William Phiston, Thomas Pie, Hugh Plat, Thomas Playfere, Henry (Porter), Thomas [Powell], Thomas Preston, Daniel Price, Robert [Pricke{t}], Samuel Purchas, George [Puttenham], ••• Q: Francis {+John}[Quarles], Walter Quin ••• R: Thomas [Randolph], Willam Rankins, Gamaliell Ratsey, William Rawley, Thomas{John?} Rawlins, John {Henry/Edward?} Reynolds, Barnabe Riche, Samuel Rid, John Rider, John Roberts {of Weston}, John Rhodes, Henry Robarts, William Roe, Thomas{Richard?} [Rogers], Fernando Rojas, Robert Rollock, John Rolte, Francis Rous, David Rowland, William Rowley, Samuel Rowl[ands]ey, Mathew Royd{e}on, Anthony Rudd, Edmund Rudierde ••• S: Francis Sabie, William Sampson, George Sandy{i,e}s, Penuen [Sands], Josef Scaliger, Anthony Scoloker, John Selde{o}n, Roger Sharpe, Edward Sharpham, Thomas [Shelton], James {Anthony?} (Shirley), John Skelton, John Skinner, William Slatyer, Edward Smith, Thomas Smith, William [Smith], Wentworth (Smith), Charles [Sorel], Robert [Southwell], John Speed, Rachel Speght, Richard [Stanyhurst], John Stephens, William {Samuel}Stone, Mathew Stoneham, Thomas Storer, Johannes Stradding, William Stro{a}de, Phillip Stubbes, John Suckling, Richard Surph{f}let, Josua [Sylvester], ••• T: Robert Tailor, Richard [Tarlton], John Tatham, John [Taylor], Thomas Thymme, Francis Thynne, Robert [Tofte], Thomas Tomkis, Antonio de Torquemeda, Cyril [Tourneur], Aurelian Townshend. George Tubervile, Thomas Tuke, Thomas Tusser, Daniel Tuvi{e}ll ••• U: John Udall, ••• V: William {Rowland?} Vaughan, Richard Verstegan, John {Thomas?} Vicars, ••• W: Ferdinando Walker, Thomas Walkington, Thomas Walkley, Arthur{William}Warren, William ([Warner]), James Wats, Thomas [Watson], William [Webbe], John (Webster), John ([Weever]), Edward Weston, Richard West, John Wheeler, George Whetstone, William Whitaker, Geoffrey [Whitney], George [Wilkins], Andrew Willet, Roger Willams, William Willymat, Robert ([Wilson]), Thomas Wilson, Anthony {John} Wingfield, George [Wither], Richard Witt, Anthony Wotton, Peter [Woodhouse], William Worship, Matthew Wren, Leonard/Thomas{Edward/Abraham [Wright], Mary Wroth, Thomas Wyatt, T.W. ••• Y: Robert Yarington, Bartholomew Yong, Richard Younge
Author-names of contemporaries of Shakespeare
••• A: Thomas Adams, Edward Aggas, Matheo Aleman, William (Alexander), Edward Allen, Robert Allott, Lancelot {John?}(Andrewes), Oliver Almond, Anonymous /Ignoto, Martin Aray, Robert Armin, Archie{bald} Armstrong, Roger Ascham, Robert Ashley, Robert Aylett ••• B: Francis (Bacon), William Bacster, Thomas Bancroft, John{William?} Barclay, , Willam Barksted, William Barley, Barnabe ([Barnes]), Richard ([Barnfield]), Robert Barret, Lordling {Lodowick?} Barr{e}y, William [Basse], Thomas [Bastard], John Bate, William Bathe, Thomas Be, Francis{+John}[Beaumont], Thomas [Beedome], Thomas Bell, John Benson, Richard Bernard, Matthieu Beroald, Charles {William?} [Best], John [Bodenham], Edmund Bolton, John Boys, John Bradford, Thomas Bradley, Thomas Bradshaw, Samuel [Brandon], Richard [Brathwaite], Nicholas [Breton], Timothie Bright, Richard [Brome], Christopher Brooke, Hugh {Richard} Broughton, William [Browne], Lodowick [Bryskett], George Buc{k}, Edward Buckler, Samuel Buggs, Robert{Willam?} (Burton), Charles Butler, Nicholas Byfield, ••• C: Thomas Campion, Thomas {Richard} [Carew], George Carleton, Ralph Carr, Elisabeth Cary, Thomas Cartwright, Isaac Causabon, John Case, Robert Cawdr{a}y, John Chalkhill, John Chamber, George [Chapman], Bartholomew Chappell, Bartholomew Chappel, Robert [Chester], Henry Chettle, Henry Chillester, Thomas [Churchyard], Anthony [Chute], John [Clapham], Willam [Clarke], John Clavel, Giles Clayton, Robert Cleaver, John Cleveland, Peter [Colse], Anthony Colynet, Henry Constable, Thomas [Combe], Thomas Cooper, Anthony Copley, Richard {J0hn Edward?}Corbet, Jeremy Corderoy, Thomas Corneille, William Cornwallis, Thomas Coryate, Richard Cosin, John [Cotgrave], Roger{Clement} Cotton, Alexander Craig, Ra{l}ph [Crane], Richard Crompton, Henry [Crosse], Thomas Culpeper, ••• D: Robert Daborn, Samuel ([Daniel]), John {William} [Davenant], John [Davies], Francis [Davison], Robert {Lancelot} Dawes, John{Angel?} [Day], Thomas ([Dekker]), Thomas Deloney, Arthur Dent, John [Dickenson], Kenelm Digby, John Dod, John (Donne), Anne Dowriche, Thomas Drant, Michael ([Drayton]), John Dunbar, Edward (Dyer),Jeremiah Dyke ••• E: John Earle, Thomas{Richard?} Edwards, John {Thomas} Eliot, William Est, Henri {Charles} Estienne, ••• F: Edward Fairfax, Thomas {Giles?} Farnaby, Owen Felltham, Dudley Fenner, Richard Ferris, Nathaniel Field, Theophilus Field, Jasper Fisher, Charles Fitz-Geffrey, Richard Flecknoe, Giles{Anthonie}John [(Fletcher)], John (Florio), Thomas [Floyd], John{Emanuel?}[Ford], Simon Forman, Edward Forset, Abraham [(Fraunce)], Thomas [Freeman], John Fregeuille, ••• G: William [Gager], Dunstan Gale, Samuel Gardiner, Robert Garnier, George Gascoigne, Robert Gentilis, Charles [Gibbon], Henry Glapthorne, William Goddard, Francis Godwin, Thomas [Goffe], Arthur Golding, Thomas{George?} Goodwin, Barnabe Googe, Stephen Gosson, Robert Greene, Richard Greenham, Edward Gresham, Fulke (Greville), Bartholomew ([Griffin]), Mathew Grove, Elizabeth Grymeston, Edward [Guilpin], ••• H: William Habington, Roger Hacket, Richard Hakluyt, Joseph {John} Hall, John [Harington], William Harrison, Gabriel Harvey, Richard Hasleton, Francis Hastings, , Robert Hayman, William Heale, John Heath, William Hemings, Robert [Herrick], Hervey of Kid-brooke, Peter Heylyn, Thomas ([Heywood]), John Higgins, Thomas Hill, Henry {Hugh?Philemon?} Holland, Francis Holyoake, Richard Hooker, Job Hortop, Anthony {John?} Hoskins James Howell, Juan Huarte, Francis [Hubert], William Hubbock, Thomas Hudson, John Hull, Alexander{Tobias?} Hume, William Hunnis, Leonard Hutten ••• I: Hugh Ince, ••• J: Henry Jacob, Richard James, William {John?} Jewell, Thomas Jones, William Jones, Richard Johnson, Ben Jonson, ••• K: William Kemp, Timothe Kendall, Henry King, Thomas Kyd ••• L: John Lane, Aemilie Lanyer, William Leigh, William{Alexander} Leighton, John Leland, Nicholas Lesse, Christopher Lever, Lewis Lewkenor, Jaques[Le Doux], Richard Linche, Thomas [(Lodge)], Donald -Thomas? [Lupton], John Lydgate, John Lyly, ••• M: Lewis [Machin], Gerrard de Malynes, Roger (Manners), Gervase {Francis?}[Markham], Francis Marbury, John [Marston], Robert Mason, Philip [Massinger], Tobie ([Mathew]), Thomas [May], John May, John {Albrecht?} Mayer, Brian Melbancke, Francis [Meres], Thomas {Christopher} ([Middleton]), Peter Moffett, Henry More, Miles Mosse, Philip Mournay, William [Muggins], Richard Mulcaster, Anthony (Munday), Christopher Muriell, ••• N: Thomas Nabbes, Thomas Nash, Robert Naunton, Giovanni Nenna, Henry (Neville), Thomas Newton, Richard Niccols, Samuel Nicholson, Anthony Nixon, John Norden, Thomas (North), Richard{William?} Nugent ••• O: Christopher Ocland, John Ogle, Thomas [Overbury], John {Thomas} [Owen], Lewis Owen ••• P: Samuel Page, John {Henry?} Paget, Claude Paradin, Martin Parker, Robert Parsons, Henry Parrot, Simon Patericke, Thomas Paynell, Henry [Peacham], George (Peele), William Percy, Willam{Samuel?} Perkins, Bonaventure Des Periers, Bonaventure Des Periers, Robert Peterson, Henry [Petowe], William Phiston, Thomas Pie, Hugh Plat, Thomas Playfere, Henry (Porter), Thomas [Powell], Thomas Preston, Daniel Price, Robert [Pricke{t}], Samuel Purchas, George [Puttenham], ••• Q: Francis {+John}[Quarles], Walter Quin ••• R: Thomas [Randolph], Willam Rankins, Gamaliell Ratsey, William Rawley, Thomas{John?} Rawlins, John {Henry/Edward?} Reynolds, Barnabe Riche, Samuel Rid, John Rider, John Roberts {of Weston}, John Rhodes, Henry Robarts, William Roe, Thomas{Richard?} [Rogers], Fernando Rojas, Robert Rollock, John Rolte, Francis Rous, David Rowland, William Rowley, Samuel Rowl[ands]ey, Mathew Royd{e}on, Anthony Rudd, Edmund Rudierde ••• S: Francis Sabie, William Sampson, George Sandy{i,e}s, Penuen [Sands], Josef Scaliger, Anthony Scoloker, John Selde{o}n, Roger Sharpe, Edward Sharpham, Thomas [Shelton], James {Anthony?} (Shirley), John Skelton, John Skinner, William Slatyer, Edward Smith, Thomas Smith, William [Smith], Wentworth (Smith), Charles [Sorel], Robert [Southwell], John Speed, Rachel Speght, Richard [Stanyhurst], John Stephens, William {Samuel}Stone, Mathew Stoneham, Thomas Storer, Johannes Stradding, William Stro{a}de, Phillip Stubbes, John Suckling, Richard Surph{f}let, Josua [Sylvester], ••• T: Robert Tailor, Richard [Tarlton], John Tatham, John [Taylor], Thomas Thymme, Francis Thynne, Robert [Tofte], Thomas Tomkis, Antonio de Torquemeda, Cyril [Tourneur], Aurelian Townshend. George Tubervile, Thomas Tuke, Thomas Tusser, Daniel Tuvi{e}ll ••• U: John Udall, ••• V: William {Rowland?} Vaughan, Richard Verstegan, John {Thomas?} Vicars, ••• W: Ferdinando Walker, Thomas Walkington, Thomas Walkley, Arthur{William}Warren, William ([Warner]), James Wats, Thomas [Watson], William [Webbe], John (Webster), John ([Weever]), Edward Weston, Richard West, John Wheeler, George Whetstone, William Whitaker, Geoffrey [Whitney], George [Wilkins], Andrew Willet, Roger Willams, William Willymat, Robert ([Wilson]), Thomas Wilson, Anthony {John} Wingfield, George [Wither], Richard Witt, Anthony Wotton, Peter [Woodhouse], William Worship, Matthew Wren, Leonard/Thomas{Edward/Abraham [Wright], Mary Wroth, Thomas Wyatt, T.W. ••• Y: Robert Yarington, Bartholomew Yong, Richard Younge
Such observations and deeper insights into these texts led to the development of an -extended Marlowe / Shakespeare Theory.
It is neither conceivable nor acceptable that during an abundantly rich published "Elisabethan" literary era, the greatest poet and literary genius of modern times William Shakespeare had no part in all these literary genres. -
About 70 Shakespeare candidates so far have been proposed in the authorship debate!
It is neither possible, realistic nor conceivable (on the contrary it's ridiculous and totally insane) that there could have existed so many authors at the exceptional singular genius level of Shakespeare at a circumscribed time (1585 - 1630) .
Conversely, however, a realistic alternative (though hard to conceive) is, that the single genius was forced to conflate all his writings with changing [pseudo]author-names, initials and [pseudo]collaborators. This leads us inevitably to the ->Marlowe-Shakespeare Theory, which seems to be able to answer most previously ->unanswered questions and to propose a solution of the century old authorship debate, - by
concluding and summarizing:
For reasons both of livesaving and safety the most renowned and – according to the law – deadly threatened London playwright genius Christopher Marlowe obeyed the crown to fake his death, abandoned his identity & name and accepted the pen-name Shake-speare as a new poet and dramatist pseudonym (borrowed from the paid businessman William Shakspere-Stratford) but by writing and conflating also with many other names, initials or pseudonyms from the very beginning.
The numerous Shakespeare candidates (and also [pseudo]collaborators) were not the consequence but - paradoxically - the cause of the authorship problem and debate, yet still beyond all imaginations.
It is neither conceivable nor acceptable that during an abundantly rich published "Elisabethan" literary era, the greatest poet and literary genius of modern times William Shakespeare had no part in all these literary genres. -
About 70 Shakespeare candidates so far have been proposed in the authorship debate!
It is neither possible, realistic nor conceivable (on the contrary it's ridiculous and totally insane) that there could have existed so many authors at the exceptional singular genius level of Shakespeare at a circumscribed time (1585 - 1630) .
Conversely, however, a realistic alternative (though hard to conceive) is, that the single genius was forced to conflate all his writings with changing [pseudo]author-names, initials and [pseudo]collaborators. This leads us inevitably to the ->Marlowe-Shakespeare Theory, which seems to be able to answer most previously ->unanswered questions and to propose a solution of the century old authorship debate, - by
concluding and summarizing:
For reasons both of livesaving and safety the most renowned and – according to the law – deadly threatened London playwright genius Christopher Marlowe obeyed the crown to fake his death, abandoned his identity & name and accepted the pen-name Shake-speare as a new poet and dramatist pseudonym (borrowed from the paid businessman William Shakspere-Stratford) but by writing and conflating also with many other names, initials or pseudonyms from the very beginning.
The numerous Shakespeare candidates (and also [pseudo]collaborators) were not the consequence but - paradoxically - the cause of the authorship problem and debate, yet still beyond all imaginations.
