(259) Shakespeare's exuberant "autobiographical" theme: loss of identity, name and status! It only fits to Marlowe!

The Marlowe Theory is not even allowed to be conceived as a (working) hypothesis?

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MANFRED WEIDHORN 

MANFRED WEIDHORN Professor of English, Faculty Director of Yeshiva University New York in a paper in  Studies in Engl Literature SEL 1969 dealt with the

 relation of  Name and Title to Identity in Shakespearean Tragedy.

In his summary he concluded (using appropriate examples of "Anthony and Cleopatra", "Richard II", "King Lear", "Coriolanus") that the

  "....Shakespearean tragic hero undergoes, when faced with severe adversity, a loss of identity. This crisis is signalled by the loss of his title and name. 

 Towards the end of his career, the name or some dignified name and identity are recovered, but not the title. " 

This situation  of  Shakepeare's tragic heros  corresponds perfectly to Marlowe's assumed  autobiographic situation of a permanent loss of identity, name and titles thus  supporting the Shakespeare Marlowe theory without force and compulsion...

What may be the reason, that the Marlowe Theory is not allowed 

to be conceived even as a (working) hypothesis?

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(see also -->Blog 9 Stephen Greenblatt)