(323) :The Coherence of Shakespeare's "Lucrece", Drayton's "Gaveston" and Marlowe`s "Edward II", Ominous 1594

       "Marlowes" Gaveston 

 and "Draytons" Gaveston

                                        in the same year?

1594 is within the first year of Marlowe's sudden disappearance. His alleged killing was not known or published  before 1597! (s. Blog.278 ). Until 1597 there is  only a historical source of the rumour that Marlowe died of the plague. 

(Harvey Sept.1593)   Blameable Tarquin   - Praiseworthy Gaveston
Blog 321 pointed to a relationship between the leading character  "Tarquin" of the poetic epos "Lucrece" (Shakespeare's 1594) and  the leading character of eloquent "Gaveston"  in Edward II (Marlowe 1594). Briefly recapitulated:

Shakespere's "Lucrece" 1594 can be seen as an "autobiographic" metaphor  of the crime of its "blamable protagonist" Tarquin (Marlowe) against Lucrece (Queen Elisabeth ) having comitted high treason against the queen with the consequence of death penalty  -- ["Tar-quin had "tar"red the "queen"].  Rescue by faking his death was organized on the part of the crown and permission was given to him to change identity,  to stay alive "incognito", and to publish under pen-names (such as Shake-speare , T.M., J. D. and many others). -- 

Marlowe's Gaveston in Edward-II can be seen - complementary- as an "autobiographic metaphor" of its "praiseworthy protagonist" (Marlowe) beginning in Scene-1 with: " These lines  might have enforst me to have swum from France, and like Leander(!) gaspt upon the sand...the sight of London to my exiled eyes, is as Elyzium to an  new come soule;

How does the strange coincidence of Drayton's poetic narrative ("The Legend of Piers Gaveston, his life, death and fortune", also appearing in print 1594) fit in this context?

I see only one logic explanation by abandoning the idea, that Michael Drayton was an author independent to Shakespeare / alias Marlowe.- There are good reasons, to assume, that Drayton was - similar to Shake-speare - another most significant "wild card" or pen name of concealed Marlowe (Details of arguments, see. Blog 324) , as absurd as it may sound at first glance  to the ignorant of the hugeness of Shakespeare's authorship inconsistencies.-

Those contemporaries who in 1594 were familiar with Draytons "Gaveston", should  have had litte difficulties 1594 in making a connection between the author of »Lucrece« [Shakespeare], »Edward II« [Marlowe] and »Peirs Gaveston« [Drayton].-  

Drayton's  Gaveston gives us a metaphoric "blueprint" of the poet,  of his twist of fate, of his fall and of his formal extinction (»his life, death and fortune«). The latin title quote  (»effugiunt [Original: defugiunt] avidos carmina sola rogos« from »Ovid, Amores« III, 9, expresses that the poet alone (»sola«) because of his poetry (»carmina«) could escape (»effugiunt«) the pyre (»rogos«). You  find the same latin title phrase on Draytons »Idea, The Shepheards Garland« 1593 and others 


Conclusion:  The year 1594  features the powerful   poetic and literary conflict and inner debate of Marlowe (alias Shakespeare/Drayton)  with his tragic sudden and unexpected twist of fate.  

A kind of epilogue in Drayton "Gaveston" (in prose)  endorses the poems, which makes the interpretation  obvious:

: ...cavilling  in the circumstances of his sundry banishments, ...which hath bred some doubt amongst those who have but slighly run over the history of his fortune,..although most of them concluding in generall  of the manner of his credite with the king,  of the manner of  his death.  (...) I only relyed in the plot of my history,,,  framing myselfe a bodie of historie , without maime or deformitie ...

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Michael  Drayton a Pseudonym