R O B ER T L O G A N
Marlowe and Shakespear's C O N F L A T I O N
An Abyss of irrationality
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SHAKESPEARE MARLOWE
On the Cover Picture (middle) of LOGAN's Book
entitled
"Shakespeare's Marlowe:
The Influence of Christopher Marlowe on Shakespeare's Artistry"
Prof. ->Robert Logan (Chair of the English Department in the College of Arts and Science, Univ.of Hartford) graphically
conflated Shakespeare and Marlowe:
Shakespeare incorporated into his own work the dramaturgical and literary devices that resulted in Marlowe's artistic and commercial success and absorbed and developed Marlowe's remarkable
"verbal dexterity", his
"imaginative flexibility" in reconfiguring standard
notions of dramatic genres, and his
"astute use of ambivalence and ambiguity".
Isn' it an abyss of irrationality to think that ....
....out of two literary giants [Marlowe / Shakespeare, both borne in 1564, only 2 month apart] the one [Marlowe], highly educated, successfull poet genius, dramatist and theatrical "superstar" in London, („the predecessor“) ceased to exist (Mai 30, 1593) before the other- unlearned unknown, unexperienced Shakespeare („the successor“) entered on the scene weeks after Marlowe's murder, at the top of literary mastership with his first opus "Venus & Adonis op.1".(both never ever met (and "handshaked") in London and did overlap in their literary activities not even a single day .....
What on earth is going on
here with the "common sense" of a Marlowe expert ?
