In Shakspeare’s (Stratford) youth
Marlowe the most celebrated , most innovative figure in the London theater world!
In week 6 of his Shakespeare MOOC course ("Witches & doctors) ) Prof.Jonathan Bate literally said
…“In Shakespeare’s youth Marlowe was the most celebrated, most innovated figure in the theater world and from Dr.Faustus [Marlowe] Shakespeare learnt the possibility of writing a drama about psychology of ambition....
a great series of dialogues between Faustus and Mephistopheles, the evil spirit. That was definitely an inspiration for Shakespeare as he began to write Macbeth..."
I am certain that Prof.Bate led most learners to erroneously conclude that successor Shakespeare must have been younger than predecessor Marlowe. They were of the same age,however !
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Has not the time come to abandon the irrational dogma that the one genius of a poet, Marlowe [„the predecessor“] ceased to exist (Mai 30,1593) before the other genius of the same age, Shakespeare [„the successor“] entered on the scene and that Two poet genius of the same age did not overlap in their literary activities a single day,
living in the same city at the same time?
