Ben Jonson never mentioned the name Shakespeare throughout Shakspere’s lifetime!
Why?
He had promised a hidden poet (Marlowe alias Shakespeare?) not to reveal his identity |
| Ben Jonson |
Without any doubt the most important historical key witness regarding a knowledge of the identity of Shakespeare must have been Ben Jonson. -
Shouldn’t we expect to find in his own collected First Folio (»The Workes"-1616) edited with great care at the death year of Shakspere (1616) some biographical or literary hints or allusions of the unique historical authorship mystery?
The supposed lack led experts to conclude that a Shakespearean authorship issue does not exist. But traces could not be found as long as experts were looking for literary outputs under the name of "Shakespeare".
Ben Jonson (who never mentioned the name Shakespeare throughout Shakspere’s lifetime! Why?) had promised a hidden poet (Marlowe alias Shakespeare?) not to identify him and to reveal his name (s.Epigramm LXXVII
"To One that desired not to name him").
"To One that desired not to name him").
One can assume, that Jonson throughout his life must have perceived his poet opponent as a overpowering threat and that there was a considerable rivalry between him and Shakespeare!
The epigramms XXX and XXXVIII seem to indicate that Jonson had him on toast?
Whom he could have meant in his epigrams 30, 38 and 77 ?
Is "the one, that desired not be named" a guilty person (according to the law)?
The epigramms XXX and XXXVIII seem to indicate that Jonson had him on toast?
Whom he could have meant in his epigrams 30, 38 and 77 ?
Is "the one, that desired not be named" a guilty person (according to the law)?
In 1616 is there any other option but
the "true" Shakespeare [ Marlowe]?
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