All considerations make only sense
if you accept a Marlowe / Shakespeare identity.-
Excerpts of Jo.Fo (John Ford?), W.B. (William Brown?)
W.S. (William Shakespeare?) dedicatory texts to Thomas Overburies "A Wife .." (1616)
W.S. (William Shakespeare?) dedicatory texts to Thomas Overburies "A Wife .." (1616)
It is by no means certain that the learned courtier Thomas Overbury (1581-1613), intimate friend of The Earl of Somerset, Robert Carr, was a poet and writer.-
There are good reasons to argue that the few and small -->Poetic texts ("A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Overburye,’" (1614), The Remedy of Love (1620), and "Observations in Foreign Travels" (1626) ), printed under the name of Thomas Overbury after his murder (1613) cannot have been written by himself, but only by the concealed poet-genius Marlowe [alias Shakespeare], writing since his own "murder" 1593 under initials, pseudonyms and also Alias names of living and dead persons like Shakespeare, Southwell, Harrington, Overbury and others (for details see -->E-book or -->Summary)
There are good reasons to argue that the few and small -->Poetic texts ("A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Overburye,’" (1614), The Remedy of Love (1620), and "Observations in Foreign Travels" (1626) ), printed under the name of Thomas Overbury after his murder (1613) cannot have been written by himself, but only by the concealed poet-genius Marlowe [alias Shakespeare], writing since his own "murder" 1593 under initials, pseudonyms and also Alias names of living and dead persons like Shakespeare, Southwell, Harrington, Overbury and others (for details see -->E-book or -->Summary)
The poem, "A Wife..Now the Widdow..",published at first in 1614 was abundantly reprinted within the next sixty years. It was one of the most exceptionally popular books of the 17th century.-
Thomas Overbury, sent to the Tower of London in April 1613 by king James I, died in Sept.1613 due to a chronic poisening. With each new printing of the poem "A wife", registered Dec.1613 after Overbury's death, more material was added including more "Characters" beginning from 1614, various elegies for the deceased knight, as well as other pieces of prose and poetry,
raising the question of the Authorship of all these new texts.
Many writers contributed under their initials prefatory verses to the early Editions of the ‘Wife,’ as well as to separate aspects of Thomas Overbury [and Robert Carr/Frances Howard].
Among the writers were
William Browne and
John Ford. -
Richard Niccols ( ‘Overburies Vision’) in 1616, and
Samuel Rowlands "The poysened knights complained" (1614) ,
John Dunbar, "Epigrams", 1616, p. 104;
Thomas Scot, "Philomythie", 1610;
John Owen, Epigrams, 1612, and contemporary variations like ‘A Second Select Husband,’ by
John Davies (of Hereford) in 1616; ‘The Description of a Good Wife,’ by
Richard Brathwaite, and
Patrick Hannay's ‘Happy Husband,’ in 1619 but also
George Chapman, "Andromeda liberata"(1614),
Thomas Campion and others .
When one realizes that the courtier Thomas Overbury was a virtually untraceable literary figure before his death 1613 then the sudden eulogies and abundance of presentations of so many contemporous writers and authors must or can be understood as the suitable attempt of the hidden and incognito poet-genius itself [Marlowe] to gradually disclose his fatal destiny metaphorically behind the analogy of a killed courtier with the help of a multitude of pseudonymous autornames such as Shakespeare (W.S) Ford (Jo.Fo.), Richard Niccols (R.N.) etc.
In 1616 [the year of Shakspere's death in Stratford] in the dedicatory texts (s.Faksimile sample excerpts) you may recognize a poet of great fame describes himself whose life seems identical with a concealed poet genius, who died once but whose life continued
John Ford "once dead twice alive" .."he might have lived, had not the life, which gave Life to his life, betraid him to his grave ,... "twice the sun went round ,since thy soule fled, onely that time men shal term thee dead, hereafter raised to life")
and who was already falsely buried (1616 Shakspere[Stratford]."...so over-buried in a false beliefe. ---thou are not gone nor canst descend in oblivion etc etc...-
(written in the year of death 1616 of Shakspere)
The allegoric literary Overbury story around the killed courtier Thomas Overbury strongly supports the idea that he was instrumentalized by Marlowe as his metaphoric Counterpart (As absurd or grotesque it may sound at first glance!)-
(Ben Jonson 1616 in "On the Towne's Honest man"...and in the fit of miming, gets the opinion of a wit, executes man in pictures, by defect from friendship is its fames own architect,...
PASSION, POISON and POWER The Mysterious Death of Sir Thomas Overbury
