17 Oct 2015

(301) Marlowe's (alias Shake-speare) fantastical deception with 2 high profile Alias-poets both named "John Davies"

There are plausible arguments to assume that the "true" or "real" poet-genius Marlowe / alias "Shakespeare" managed a permanent double deception by inventing intials, pen-names of John Davies 

2 poets with the same name "John Davies" published at the same year (1602)  at  the "same time as Shakespeare" about the ""same subject matter of the "faculties" of the soul!




Around the start of the 17th century two high profile poets with the name "John Davies" (JD) published in parallel philosophical-poetic essays in verse.

 In order to keep the 2 poets apart, the work of the one is  labeled with the addition of his title (Sir  J.D. -1- , -2- ), and  the work  of the other with the addition of his origin (J.D. of Hereford. -1- , -2-)
It is striking that both books, Sir JD.'s "Nosce Teipsum"[s.Faksimile]  and JD of Hereford's "Mirum in Modum" [s.Faksimile] printed in the same year (1602) dealing both  with philosophical aspects of the Trinity of the soul (Sir J.D. "Of the Soule of Man",    J.D. of H. "The Soules Shape".)


->Mirum in Modum (JD of Hereford)

The author dedicated his long poem to
William Herbert, Earl of  Pembrooke. 

[The First Folio of Shake-speare's plays was dedicated to him and his brother].
JD explains (s.Faksimile) that to subdivide his Soule indivisible was most impossible. He had to make his Soul a Trinity becoming
3 virtues
       1.Understanding,
       2.Will, and
       3.Memorie)


->Nosce Teipsum     (Sir JD)

JD also divides the soul into a Trinity describing the three powers
[Will, Wit, Quickening Sense] of the soul which are not three souls but one. Davies uses the division literally to divide the faculties of the soul. 
(->J.R.Brink)

2 poets with the same name "John Davies" published at the same year (1602)  at  the same time as Shakespeare about the same topic of the "faculties" of the soul. 

Who can believe that these conspicuous overlaps and similarities did occur by chance?

JD in "Mirum in Modum" discloses (s.Faksimile) to his patron allegorically his decision at the time (1593), to divide his identity and his name as a result of an "understanding" of his personal situation, of his good "will" [or of the acceptance of a strawman William Shakspere, Stratford] and  of a hope of the continuance of his literary fame or "memory"?

There is an abundance of logic and plausible arguments to assume that the "true or real " poet-genius Marlowe / alias "Shakespeare" managed a permanent deception by inventing intials, pen-names  pseudonyms [such as a "Double" John Davies]  
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Remember, what the one  JD [of Hereford] wrote about the other JD [Sir JD] in "The scourge of Folly" (see faksimile below)

                                               "  your Name....my nature
                                                  your Name    and Nature are mine owne:..."