22 Jul 2015

(214) A Funerall Elegye (1612): Why an ever-lasting debate about its author....

..A Funeral Elegy .

..a never-beginning debate about its meaning?


The ->Shakespeare-Marlowe Authorship Thesis in a short formula states:  For reasons both of life saving and safety the most renowne - according to the law- deadly threatened London playwright Christopher Marlowe obeyed the crown to fake his death, to abandon his identity and name, living in anonymity, and accept the pen-name Shakespeare from the paid businessman William Shakspere from Stratford as his future poet and dramatist name yet using many additional pseudo-names from the very beginning ..

What is to be said against the assumption, that in „The Funeral Elegy (1612)“ the true author [
alias W.S. William Shakespeare?]/John Ford (s.also->Blog 55) describes allegorically his own fate (concealing it behind a murther of Mr.William P.- stabbed in the head some weeks before, corresponding to  the circulating death rumours of Marlowe... )

Please read the full unabridged text (5 pages.-Click below! Not unstrenuous!) of the Funeral Elegy  by W.S., (if the superficial rhyme structure of the text is removed, it looks now like a prose text- (emphasis yellow, bold text, texts in bracket not in the original!)



Do you see a way out of the compelling assumption, that the specifics of this  elegy do not mirror  William Peter of Whipton but the fate of Christopher Marlowe ?

(perhaps the Video is better suited to clarify it ...