Can anybody really assume t
that a "2-author play - The Two Noble Kinsmen" appeared 18 years(!) after Shakespeare’s death and 9 years(!) after Fletchers death?
Sir Jonathan Bate formulated in his MOOC course 9-9 about "the Tempest", that the play
"... was Shakespeare’s last solo‐authored play. ……he subsequently went on and wrote collaborative plays, including Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen (TTNK) with the younger dramatist John Fletcher. He [Shakspeare] seems to have been training Fletcher up to take over the role of becoming lead dramatist for the King’s Men.“
Shakespeare (1564-1616) must have stopped his writings about 1608/9, Fletcher (1575-1624) started his writings about 1609.-
Shakespeare’s part : Act I, scenes 1–3; Act II, scene 1; Act III, scene 1; Act V, scene 1, lines 34-173, and scenes 3 and 4. ---
Fletcher’s part: -- Prologue; Act II, scenes 2–6; Act III, scenes 2–6; Act IV, scenes 1 and 3; Act V, scene 1, lines 1–33, and scene 2; Epilogue. - "
Uncertain parts"--Act I, scenes 4 and 5; Act IV, scene 2.
What a horrible "spawn" of an unimaginative, misguided Shakespeare expertise"! "... was Shakespeare’s last solo‐authored play. ……he subsequently went on and wrote collaborative plays, including Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen (TTNK) with the younger dramatist John Fletcher. He [Shakspeare] seems to have been training Fletcher up to take over the role of becoming lead dramatist for the King’s Men.“
Shakespeare (1564-1616) must have stopped his writings about 1608/9, Fletcher (1575-1624) started his writings about 1609.-
The relative shares of Shakespeare and Fletcher in the TTNK were determined by linguistic techniques : --
Shakespeare’s part : Act I, scenes 1–3; Act II, scene 1; Act III, scene 1; Act V, scene 1, lines 34-173, and scenes 3 and 4. ---
Fletcher’s part: -- Prologue; Act II, scenes 2–6; Act III, scenes 2–6; Act IV, scenes 1 and 3; Act V, scene 1, lines 1–33, and scene 2; Epilogue. - "
Uncertain parts"--Act I, scenes 4 and 5; Act IV, scene 2.
Can anybody really believe that such a bizarre
constellation did exist ?
of Shakespeare as a team player and Trainer ("Coach") of Fletcher? and that their common work TTNK appeared 20 years after Shakespeare’s death and 10 years after Fletchers death,
with no proofs that they ever met, communicated or worked together?
What a weird theory?
Imagine Shakespeare and Fletcher were pseudonyms
of the same still living singular poet-genius [Marlowe] ?
