B E N J O N S O N
the Key Witness
You get an idea of the hidden true author ("of so good a fame") who wrote under a multiplicity of pseudonyms incl. Shake-speare.-
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| Ben Jonson (1616) Epigramm 115 - Beginning of the poem( 6 of 34 lines...see below) |
 Ben Jonson (1616) Epigram 77 |
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| Ben Jonson |
Without any doubt the absolute key witness with respect to a knowledge of the true identity of Shakespeare and thus to the contemporary "Shakespeare Authorship Mystery" must have been Ben Jonson!
Shouldn't we expect to find at least some specific indications of biographical or literary allusions of the unique historical authorship situation in Jonson's Folio edition of his collected writings »The Workes" (1616) printed in the year of Shakspere's (Stratford) death ?
Shouldn't we expect to find at least some specific indications of biographical or literary allusions of the unique historical authorship situation in Jonson's Folio edition of his collected writings »The Workes" (1616) printed in the year of Shakspere's (Stratford) death ?
The alleged lack of such indications led experts to conclude that a Shakespeare authorship issue did not and does not exist.
Note: traces could not be found
a) as long as experts were only looking for texts related to a man named Shake-speare and
b) as long as experts showed no readyness for -->reasonable doubt about the identity of William Shakespeare (Stratford).
Note: traces could not be found
a) as long as experts were only looking for texts related to a man named Shake-speare and
b) as long as experts showed no readyness for -->reasonable doubt about the identity of William Shakespeare (Stratford).
Jonson had given the solemn promise to the hidden poet of "so good a fame" (Marlowe / alias Shakespeare) to never identify him and to conceal his name (s.Epigramm Faksimile LXXVII "To One that desired me not to name him").
If you decipher Epigram 77 as well as the 34 lines of Epigram 115 (see above!) on "Londons honest Man" you will get an idea of the hidden true author ("of so good a fame") who wrote under a multiplicity of pseudonyms incl. Shake-speare.-
(Read also subsequent Blog 263).-
Both epigrams (77/115) support the idea of a (surviving) famous rival poet of Ben Jonson, which he promised not to conceal, who was more famous than himself , who had so many names but was only one, a namelesse one! (I name him not aloud, that boast so good a fame: naming so many, too! But, this is one, suffers no name...):
Surviving concealed Incognito, Marlowe alias Shakespeare, alias so many [pseudo]names
