(314) Why the bizarre front / backview of the Shakespeare Portrait"

                Clearly a mask ! But who is behind it ?

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The preparation of the First Folio took almost 8 years (1616-Dec1623). One can be sure that greatest care has been taken to a perfect illustration of the portrait of the poetic genius and dramatist  Shakespeare. Nothing was left to chance: The shadowed double line (s.red arrows!) at the left chin of Droeshouts famous copper engraving in the First Folio (FF  1623 was by no means accidental but had a definite meaning: it clearly characterizes the border of a mask. (Even the "inverted satirical" second illustration (1640) of Shakespeare's copper engraving in  (s.white arrows! of ->Shakespeare's sonetts, restructured) exhibits a double line at the right chin. -                Click here →: Original First Folio "Portrait"   The absolute inability or unwillingness of (academic) Shakespeare experts  to develop a reasonably plausible working hypothesis (of the meaning and explanation of the double chin line), i.e. why there is a mask und who is behind it, is telling ....  If the man from Stratford would have been the poet genius, all this shady monkey business would not have been necessary. - And also Ben Jonsons adjecent "rude" commentary ("reader looke, not on his picture, but his booke") would not have been necessary. How can Stratfordians experts ever expect, that a growing  collective intelligence world-wide  is letting itself fobbed off with such a farcy monkey bussiness.   The true poet genius (concealed  Christopher Marlowe alias SHAKESPEARE), in 1616 was alive and orchestrated not only the arrangements for the First Folio but all  significant late textual corrections, enlargements, changes  and amendments of the First Fo(between 1616 and 1623) which otherwise cannot be explained.- Perhaps there are better  theories around , I haven't seen them yet., however.-

(312) Equating an "Oxford perspective " with a "Poststratfordian"

The disputable authenticity of George Chapman

The claim of Christopher Carolan's most interesting ->blog, discussing  the Shakespeare Authorship Question as representing a "post-Stratfordian perspective", is a bit unfair:   it's not  a "post-Stratfordian" but  an "Oxfordian perspective".   The blog  is - as Carolan writes - an unauthorized spin-off of ->Quake-speare Shorterly, Rambler’s ground-breaking look into the textual contexts and  literary scenes of Elizabethan and early Jacobean England, all from an Oxfordian perspectiive. Its a valuable piece of information. In Carolans initial  blog starting with a look at Chapman’s "The Gentleman Usher "-  one can easily agree that the character  "Medice"  fits best to William,  the Stratfordman. “Medice. My lord, away with these scholastic wits,                  Lay the invention of your speech on me,                 And the performance too; I’ll play my part                 That you shall say, Nature yields more than Art.(1) Alphonso. Be’t so resolv’d; unartificial truth                   An unfeign’d passion can decipher best. This   is undoubtedly a  metapher that reminds us of  a deceit, of the exchange between a scholastic wit  (Marlowe?) and an outdoorsman (Shakspere?) Unfortunately, Carolan was halfway stuck. The "post-Stratfordian perspective" would probably have opened for Carolan, if he had been thinking a little deeper  about the disputable authenticity of George Chapman ( Chapman s.  previous Blog 311) 1)strongly  reminding on   Jonson’s statements    on "Art" and "Nature" in the First Folio

(311) What George Chapman has to do with Shakespeare?

 George Chapman is fully compatible with a pseudonym of Marlowe (aka Shakespeare) 

Chapman is no authentic real poet,  it is more logic to adopt a pseudonym  for the hidden poet [Marlowe]  

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First prints  of Marlowe's Hero and Leander (1598)
 without and with Chapman , only  month apart.

A few arguments  why George Chapman is compatible with a pseudonym of Marlowe (similar to Shake-speare)

▷ It is unlikely that, for its first 35 years of life no sources about Chapmans literary work can be substantiated!

▷ There is a lack of solid evidence of biographic sources for Chapmans living, training and studies.

▷ The extreme late start of Chapman's poetic activity in his 35. year of life is hardly understandable!

▷ The many plagiarism of Chapman at Marlowe's dispense cannot be understood  ( an example:
     Marlowe: Tamburlaine I. Act V, Scene. 1 (1592)
         Like to Flora in her morning's pride
         Shaking her silver tresses in the aire,
         Rain'st on the earth resolved pearl in showers.
     Chapman: England's Parnassus, Extract 2054 p.417,
         As Flora to salute the morning Sunne:
         Who When She shakes her dresses in the ayre.
         Raines on the earth Dissolved Pearle in showres ...

▷ Chapman's first work (op.1) "The Shadow of Night, Σκἰὰ νyκτōς" (1594) was not published until after Marlowe's death (similar to "Venus and Adonis", Shakespeare’s op.1)



▷ "The Shadow of Night" bears all autobiographical traits and details of a previous disaster (similar to Shakespeare's "Lucrece) - 
(" ... that I may Quickly weepe the shipwracke of the world: or let self sleepe (Binding my sences) loose My working souls ... "). 

▷The motive of Chapman. in 1594, to begin his poetic work with a hymn to his concealment, [the shadow of night] his blackout, his death (along with a hymn to the Queen, "Hymn in Cynthiam) is (auto)biographically comprehensible for Marlowe, but not for Chapman.








▷ There are  significant  close linguistic and literary relationships between Chapman and Shakespeare (->JMRobertson, 1917)

▷ There are links to the "Pembroke’s" and  "Philip Sidney". - Chapmans "Ovid's Banquet of Sence" (1595) can be regarded as a response to the erotic poems like "Astrophel and Stella" by Phillip Sydney, and "Venus and Adonis".

▷ The deliberately ambiguous dedicatory poem of JD (John Davies s.Blog 297 ff) to Chapman in "Ovid's Banquet of Sence" (1595) reveals his concealment and double nature (First Maister dyed - she [Queene] calles thee Second Maister)
       Since Ovid (Joves first gentle Maister) dyed
      He hath a most notorious trueant beene,
      And hath not once in thrice five ages seene
      (…)Which unto thee (sweet Chapman) she [Queene] hath doone:
      She makes (in thee the Spirit of Ovid move,
      And calles thee[Chapman] second Maister of her love)
                                                          Futurum invisible.

▷  There is no logic or plausibility to accept the bizarre fact that within month after the first appearance of Marlowe’s “Hero and Leander” in print (2 sestiads, 1598 ) a second author Chapman republished the poem enlarging it  by two thirds of the original volume (4 sestiads),  not to mention significant textual allusions to Marlowe's fate ....

▷ The dedication  for "Hero and Leander [" finished by George Chapman "] in 1598 by EB [Edward Blount] to Thomas Walsingham is full of allegorical references to a covert  existence of the poet Marlowe. (" ... Living in afterlife ... putteth us in Minde of farther obsequies .... what-soever we may judge shall make his living to credit .... this unfinished Tragedy happens under a double duty, the one to your selfe, the other to the diseased (!) ", among others

▷ In the dedication of Chapman's part of "Hero and Leander" to Audrey (Shelton), Lady Walsingham, Chapman  a) identifies her husband, Thomas [Marlowe's friend and patron] as "my best friend honored" in his hidden state " (my) still-obscured estate ", and b) “to Which the unhappines of my life hath hitherto been uncomfortable and painfull dumbnes ".

▷  In Chapman's translation of "The Georgicks of Hesiod '(1618),  the confidentiality of the dedicatory text to Francis Bacon is indicative for a personal proximity of both persons which may be assumed for Marlowe (chapt 12-Tobias Matthew). A correspondence  between Chapman and Bacon is not known.

▷  Contents of the dedication to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex (1598) and the outstanding  quality of Chapman's Iliad translation is indicative  for  an exceptional poet and translator, such as Marlowe. He knew the whole Greek mythology and their specific characteristics by heart.

▷ John Davies' rated Chapman in "The Scourge of Folly (1611)" (Epigram, p.476 - To my highly vallued Mr. George Chapman) as "Father of our English Poets". This may actually apply only to Marlowe alias Shakespeare.

▷ The excellence of Chapman's translations [• "Iliad" of Homer (1616), • "Georgics" of Virgil (1618), • "Workes" of Hesiod, • "Hero and Leander" of Musaeus (1618), • "Fifth Satire "Juvenal (1624)] has to be reconciled with the extreme linguistic quality of ...and relationship to Marlowe/ Shakespeare.

▷ Allusions in the dedication of Chapman's "Ovid's Banquet of Sence (1595)" points to Marlowe's fate  ... Not Affecting glory for mine owne sleight laboratories, but desirous other Should be more worthely glorious, nor precessing sacred poetry in any degree ..... With that darkness I want to quietly labor to be shadowed)

▷ in Chapman's "The Conspiracie, and tragedie of Charles Duke of Byron" (1608)  the contents of the dedication to Thomas Walsingham ("my honorable and constant friend") and his son ("to my much beloved from his birth, right toward and worthy gentleman his sun Thomas Walsingham, Esquire ") and the references in the prologue (" ... not the fair shadow of himself: Which of empoisened Spring; ... and Rising, sinckes: which now behold in our Conspirator ") is indicative  or  mandatory only for Marlowe's fate, but not for  Chapman.

▷ In Chapman's "All Fooles" (1605) the content of his intimate dedication to Thomas Walsingham ("My Long loved friend") with the "biographical" outlining of his situation ( "Should I expose to every common eye, the least allow'd birth of my shaken brain ", "without my passport patched with other's wit", "my olde Fortune keep me silent obscure" is highly indicative for  Marlowe, but not Chapman.

▷ For Chapman's successful stage play "The Blind Beggar of Alexandria", 1596/7, ( disguised as a beggar for the main and double figures "Cleanthes" / "Irus" "[= Marlowe] there are significant parable-like references to literary contents (such as "Tamburlaine") and the biography of the author [Marlowe]   (eg: Queen Aegiale to Irus: Ah my Cleanthes, Where Art Thou become But since I saved thy guiltless life from death, And turn'd it only into banishment ...!?) ..

▷ According to Chapman's conviction, he represented the heritage of the literary inspiration Marlowe's (!)

▷ in Thomas Freemans »Rubbe, and A Great Cast" (1614 –Book II)  Epigram 87 "To George Chapman"   reveals  a split identity between Chapman and the author  . Freeman is also a cover identity Marlowe's ("No Chapman but thy selfe were to be sought")  . (Epigr.I / 35 and 82, II / 57, 92, 100)
and so on , and so on......

Thus, this small sample of arguments raises doubts that Chapman was an authentic real poet. It is more logic to adopt a pseudonym "Chapman" for the hidden poet [Marlowe] and abandon the established view of an independent Genius parallel to Shakspeare / Marlowe!.

                                                See the "Chapman Part "of this video

(309) Is there a difference between Shakespeare and 9 / 11?

The "Shakespeare Authorship Nightmare": a historic covert "false flag" operation of the State... (1)

You have to accept the unthinkable: 

the Government was involved (Senior advisor of  Queen Elisabeth I ,William Cecil )

Dick Cheney Chief adviser of the US-Presidemt D.Bush You have to accept the unthinkable: the Government was involved William Cecil Chief adviser of Queen Elisabeth I

No sensible person ,  no healthy brain will ever understand why the most creative writer and poet of our modern world or of all times, William Shakespeare, did not leave a single own written word, notice, letter, correspondence etc. (execpt 6 poor signatures).  No such documents  throughout Shake-speare's life have remained or ever been discovered.  Experts simply cannot deliver a logic or plausible explanation to this situation. (Consider that any written material somebody has sent or given away, is out of  the control of the sender...) Can experts ever expect, that the public will be satisfied with the present "Stratfordian" understanding, and will close the chapter of Shakespeare's authorship The robust ->Marlowe / Shakespeare Authorship Thesis gives a plausible, logic explanation which can  be supported by a vast amount of arguments and evidence, but hasn't gained ground.  Its basic idea is, that it was the result of a covert false flag operation of high officials of the english Elisabethan state….. ...Senior advisor of Queen Elisabeth I, William Cecil). To begin to accept the possibility that the government was involved is like opening Pandoras Box.- Over time Shakespeare has become such a "religious myth" that the Marlowe thesis is going to challenge some of the peoples fundamental beliefs about  their  world. The information contradicts peoples world view: the resulting insecurity leads to a serious "Cognitive dissonance" with emotional responses  of fear and anxiety, which in turn activates psychological defense mechanism. - For a basic understanding of such a situation regard similar reactions in modern times that  may illustrate this: _____________________________________ Comparison: No sensible person und no healthy brain will ever understand why at the terror attack of  9/11 a third tower (WTC-7) with no planes hitting this building and only insignificant small office fires resulted in a sudden free symmetrical fall of  the  heavy steal-frame Skyscraper-

To accept, however the unthinkable  that the government was involved (Senior advisor of the President George Bush: Dick Cheney) would be to going to challenge our fundamental beliefs about our world, it  would overload our mind which we shut down since we cannot handle it.-
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That's similar to what happened in the historic Shakespeare autorship debate:  In order not to compromise the crown (Elisabeth I) and state (Chief adviser William Cecil) , and to rescue the national poet icon /Shakespeare/Marlowe, a covert "false flag" operation was  invented and executed , which has not been discovered up to now.-

(306) The 5/30 sudden fall of Marlowe [alias Shake-speare]: a "controlled demolition" by the crown !

An allegorical Analogy : 

Things haven't changed too much over the centuries

Marlowes death was a covert or a "false flag" operation,

a "controlled demolition of his genius" for safety reasons by the state and Crown  designed to deceive in such way, that a "life rescue" operation of a "national literary hero" appears as a tavern murder  beeing carried out by  individuals other than those who actually planned or executed them ( -->-1-,   -->-2- )

[Wikipedia:...".. during peace time,  "operations" may be called "false flag" operations,

  if they seek to hide the real organisation behind an operation".

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Both, "Super-Brain" Christopher Marlowe CM and provincial William Shakspere WS (Stratford), were of the same age! The politically dangerous, defamed and endangered poet and play-wright  and famous Superstar of Londons theater CM, (the predecessor!) was allegedly killed at Mai 30, 1593.

 Only weeks after CM's disappearance for the first time  the previously unknown WS entered the literary scene, late, in his 30th year of life, with  "Venus and Adonis", at the peak of a literary mastery.-

Both (CM / WS) did not overlap in their literary acitivity for a single  day! 

You may believe that, but you should leave your brain in the cloakroom before you enter the authorship Theatre!

Because of accumulated knowledge, sooner or later future generations will insist on  an independent validation in order to un(dis)cover the full truth surrounding the Shakespere authorship, related to 

may 30 1593 , the downfall of Marlowe. 

There is sufficient doubt about the official story, to justify a validation into the far-reaching consequences of a feigned death as the actual cause of the "bizarre" Shakespeare authorship debate from the very beginning.- 

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