4 lines out of Thomas Beard
"The Theatre
of Gods judgement " (1597) |
Did an anonymous [concealed] author use pseudonyms and stole in 1600 from Thomas Beard "Gods judgments" (1597)
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4 lines out of ->"The Maydes
Metamorphosis
" (1600) from an
anonymous Poet
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The first historical document which clearly informed the world that Christopher Marlowe had been killed, 4 years after his alleged death, occured in Thomas Beard's “The Theatre of Gods Judgement" 1597, in Chapter XXV "Of Epicures and Atheists".
Nobody ever seems to have questioned the identity of Thomas Beard. It has been rarely taken into account that this highly educated man with a gigantic "world knowledge" at his time in 1597 (at the height of Shakspeare's career!) also had impressive poetic qualities and "insider" knowledge about Marlowe one wonders how he got it!
("...a poet of scurrilitie,...wrote books...affirming our saviour to be but a deceiver, and Moses to be but a conjurer and seducer of the people, and the bible to be but vaine and idle stories, and all religion but a device of pollicie...")
By comparing verses of Thomas Beard in "Gods Judgment" (1597) with verses of the anonymous author of the stage play “The Mayde’s Metamorphosis" (1600) (see Faksimiles) it would be plausible to assume
a) that the one plagiarized from the other
or
b) that they were identical persons
("...a poet of scurrilitie,...wrote books...affirming our saviour to be but a deceiver, and Moses to be but a conjurer and seducer of the people, and the bible to be but vaine and idle stories, and all religion but a device of pollicie...")
a) that the one plagiarized from the other
or
b) that they were identical persons
