Who else than the "true" Shakespeare might have had a motive to make such extensive changes, prior to FF-printing 1623 ?
Quarto 1 (1602/19)
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Shakespeare's ->"The Merry Wives of Windsor" appeared as first Quarto (Q1 -1602), as second Quarto (Q2-1619-similar to Q1) and as First Folio (FF-1623). FF is nearly twice as long as that of Q1/Q2. Nearly all the scenes are longer than in Q1/Q2 and FF text adds the Latin lesson in Act IV/1 as well as several scenes at the beginning of act V.
Shakespeare experts and encyclopedias reveal that there was a scrivener Ra(l)ph Crane who transcribed Shakespeare's plays for the First Folio (none has survived) and made massed entrances (stage direction, act/scene disvision, speech prefixes, treatment of meters, spelling etc.), for various Shakespeare "Transcripts" such as for "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
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Thus, Crane has to be a matter of interest for those interested in solving ->unanswered authorship questions.
Crane's involvement of the First Folio is so extensive and of such kind , that he was termed "Shakespeares First Editor."
Shakespeare experts and encyclopedias reveal that there was a scrivener Ra(l)ph Crane who transcribed Shakespeare's plays for the First Folio (none has survived) and made massed entrances (stage direction, act/scene disvision, speech prefixes, treatment of meters, spelling etc.), for various Shakespeare "Transcripts" such as for "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
.
Thus, Crane has to be a matter of interest for those interested in solving ->unanswered authorship questions.
Crane's involvement of the First Folio is so extensive and of such kind , that he was termed "Shakespeares First Editor."
Shakespeare experts cannot expect us to believe that Ralph Crane was a "simple" scrivener ("scribe"). He published his own poems like "The Works of Mercy, Both Corporeal and Spiritual(1621)". - and enlarged this version in 1625 and gave him a new title:
only a year after the appearance of the First Folio - "Crane" wrote about himself in "The Authors Induction" read page 11::
"The pilgrimes New-Yeares-Gift (1625) -
only a year after the appearance of the First Folio - "Crane" wrote about himself in "The Authors Induction" read page 11::
(- I recommend to read it a few times)
Ralph Crane Page 11
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(Only) If you are aware of the ->Marlowe/alias Shakespeare Thesis (...forced to fake his death, changing identity and name, writing a life long under a multiplicity of Pseudonyms...) it seems possible, to explain, who has made so many additions to the "Merry Wives of Windsor", and to interprete Ralph Crane's "coming-out" ,
Who else might otherwise have had a motive to make such extensive changes?
Who else other than the author, could possibly have added such signifant texts and scenes so shortly prior to FF-printing 1623 ?
Thus who was Raph Crane?
Who else might otherwise have had a motive to make such extensive changes?
Who else other than the author, could possibly have added such signifant texts and scenes so shortly prior to FF-printing 1623 ?
Thus who was Raph Crane?
