(327) Shakespeare's Authorship Inconsistencies: his play- wrights name on the title pages during his lifetime but the plays not written by him!

The Devastating Academic Failure 

to develop

 a consistent Shakespeare authorship theory

William Shakespeare:                                      A Yorkshire Tragedy                                        1608

The third Folio

During Shakespeare's lifetime  various  Quartos (s. fig. and List below) were printed  under  the authorname of  William Shakespeare or »W. S.». - Contemporary purchasers of these Quartos must have assumed without question, that these plays or poems were  written by the poet William Shakespeare.- The plays were incorporated in the Third Folio  (1664) for the first time.
Strangely, two centuries later  so-called "Shakespeare experts" have recognized those "facts" as null and void, claiming that these works [for stylistic, formal  and structural reasons] cannot have originated by Shakspere. They termed these works

                                  Shakespeare's Apokrypha.  

The dogma since then is : the Apokrypha are not Shakespeare's work ! Strangely enough, they made a remarkable exception for "Pericles", which alone was allowed to belong to the Shakespeare Canon.

    ▷  »Locrine«                         (1595)                »by W.S.« 
    ▷  »...Sir John Oldcastle      (1600)  »written  by William Shakespeare»
    ▷  »The London Prodigal«  (1605)               »by William Shakespeare«.
    ▷  »The Puritan,..........      (1607)  »written by W.S.«
    ▷  »A Yorkshire Tragedy«   (1608)   written  by W.Shakspeare
    ▷  »The Funeral Elegy«      (1612)                »by W.S. «
    ▷  »Pericles«                        (1612)                  by William Shakespeare «) 

and others . 

Conclusion: All these bizarre, outlandish grotesqueness could  only happen, because  nobody was able to develop a consistent theory of the contemporary Shakespeare authorship problem.

                   

The deleterious academic Dogma is valid until today: i.e. There does not exist an Authorship Problem. Full Stop! 

To day the educated general public has no means of knowing how and why these "dictatorial apocryphal decisions" came about, which persons were responsible and why an exception was made for Pericles?

 There are significant arguments to resolve this situtation by introducing

 the Marlowe-Shakespeare Thesis.-

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