Charles Nichols daring Judgment
:...the evidence for someone else [other than the Stratford man] having written those plays is entirely non-existent, ...
October 4th 2013, on the occasion of the →"Cheltenham Literature Festival" Ros Barber, the literary prize winner and author of the verse novel →"The Marlowe Papers" discussed with historian and author of →"The Reckoning", Charles Nicholl, the Marlowe-Shakespeare Authorship theory. The session was recorded and you may listen to the discussion- click below....
listen to the discussion (1h 20min)
Rarely the discussion was enlightening since both only perpetuated their views. I learnt that Nicholl had significantly changed the Scenario of Marlowe's death between his first (1992) and second Edition (2002) in his book "The Reckoning".. In the first Edition, Marlowe was deliberately killed. In the second Edition, the death was a blunder.....I hope for a Third Edition, in which the death will be a pretence.
Nicholls Statement":...the evidence for someone else [other than the Stratford man] having written those plays is entirely non-existent, there is not one scrap of contemporary evidence to suggest that there was any kind of extraordinary sleight of hand being performed by the most popular dramatist of the day ..."
If this would be true one had to accept that about 1000 (that's correct! thousand!) arguments (of high probability) identified in the →Marlowe Book had to be false, It seems appropriate to hesitate to accept the statement of Nicholl.
Opposition from the followers of Marlowe
