- Thomas Beard -
Nobody ever seems to have questioned the identity of this man.
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| End of Chapter. XXV - 25 ("Of Epikures and Atheists") from Thomas Beard's "The Theatre of Gods judgment" 1597 |
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Small Except - Chapter. XXV (25)
("Of Epikures and Atheists") from Thomas Beard's
"The Theatre of Gods judgment" 1597 |
In Sept. 1593 - Gabriel Harvey was of the opinion, that Marlowe died of the plague.
The first historical document which clearly informed the world, that Christopher Marlowe had been killed, occured 1597, 4 years after his alleged death, in ...
...Thomas Beard's book
in Chapter XXV*1) "
Of Epicures and Atheists".
“The Theatre of Gods Judgement"
Beard gives examples of great names, who have been famous Agnostics or Atheists, (such as Protagoras, Diagoras, Pope Leo X, Luther, Philippo Strozzo, Francis Rabelais, Etienne Jodelle, Pherecides, Epicur and Marlowe ("Marlin") who alone is explicitly identified with his name at the margin ("Marlow" s.Faksimile! above).
There it is written (deliberately false) that he killed himself in the streets of London: ...in London streets Marlowe purposed to stab one whome he ought a grudge unto his dagger, the other party perceiving so avoided the stroke, that withall catching hold his wrest, stubbed his own dagger in his owne head that notwithstanding all the meanes of surgery, ...shortly after died thereof but also
(ending the chapter s.faksimile above) that such ...
..." men of greatest names, might either be extinguished ot tooted out, or at least smothered and kept under ,
that it durst not show it head anymore in the worlds eye.
Who was that Thomas Beard?
Nobody ever
seems to have questioned the identity of this man
despite .
Rarely it has been taken into account that the highly educated Thomas Beard with an almost unimaginable "world knowledge" at his time in 1597 (at the climax of Shakspeare's career!) and with impressive ->poetical qualities (s.also blog 278) concluded his chapter XXV with Marlowe for a general reference to concealment and a non-identifiability (loss of his identity- s.Faksimile).
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Why the additional later editions of Thomas Beards "The Theatre of Gods Judgments" of 1612, 1618, 1631 or 1642/48 were published with new (!) or additional (!) author names
(Edmund Rudierde [1618],
M.Heron [1642],
Taylor, or Thomas Taylor [1642/48])
or subtitles or new titles "The Thunderbolt of Gods wrath".
