Marlowe and Shakespeares conflation:
An Abyss of irrationality
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On the cover picture (middle) of LOGAN's Book
"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".(both never ever met (and "handshaked") in London and did overlap in their literary activities not even a single day .....
What on earth, Robert Logan is going on here with the "common sense" of Shakespeare experts?
