(388) Who was Edmond Howes? Any relation to the Shake-speare authorship Problem? (-3-)

Why no  intellectual traces of the worlds most powerfull "brain"[Shakespeare] during his 25 years in London? - 

As absurd as ridiculous as impossible!

Section of John Stow's Annales 1615  page .811

John Stow's "Annales  or General Chronicles of England" were continued after his death 1605 by Edmond Howes.- Howes enlarged the 1615 edition significantly. On page 811 he introduces  a list of modern present excellent poets (s.faksimile) …have registred such as were most famous, in the high misterie of Poesey: by whose singular paines, and industry , our native language, has from time to time, been much refined: and at this time directly by them, brought to great perfection; and  the abuse of time, & popular absurdities in many wayes disciphered, Section of John Stow's Annales 1615  page .811 and amended (…) our modern and present excellent Poets which worthely florish in their own workes, and all of them in my owne knowledge lived together in this Queenes raigne, according to their priorities as neere as I could, I have orderly set downe… This list of  the present moderne poets, (s. Faksimile ) raises unexpected questions. -------------------- How can it be that Howes is so well informed about so many poets who lived before 1603 (lived together in this Queenes raigne)? What may Howes phrase mean   "in my owne knowledge lived together...according to their priorities as neere as I could? Why the prename of Shakespeare is abreviated to Willi. Could this have been done deliberately,? Why John Stow 1605 didn't mention  these poets during his lifetime, but  10 years later Edmond Howes? Were Francis Meres, Abraham Fraunce or John Harrington   excellent modern poets? and so on ...... The book also contains an addendum on Englands 3 Universities (`Cambridge, Oxford, London's Innes) and descriptions of  their Colleges such as "Corpus Christ College  in Cambridge

(387) The Shakespeare (Stratford) authorship absurdity! (-2-)

No intellectual traces of the worlds most powerfull "brain" [Shakespeare] during his 25 years in London!  - 

 Consider the ridiculousness of this fact!

[

Germans most powerfull "poetical brain" Goethe left 20.000 letters.]

Get your own picture by clicking and reading a page  (Faksimile left) of this Historical Preface !(below)

John Stow's "Annales  or General Chronicles of England" were continued after his death 1605 by Edmond Howes.- Stow cannot have had anything to do with  the "Historical preface (1614)" bearing the signature of  Howes.  The main part of this Preface suggest that Howes was the author as well as of a corresponding later part "A briefe proofe of Brute".- J.A.Bryants analysis (Modern Language Review 1950) came to the conclusion  that "Howes wanted the Annales of England to serve as an illustration of his own private (his)Story" ! In the "Historical preface" Howes concluded: The originall and true purpose of Chronologie was to shew Successors, the Actions good and bad of their ancestors, and to remaine as documents to pursue the good and eschue the bad. Wouldn't it be plausible or possible that  Howes was one of the many pennames and his thoughts and knowledge originated from concealed  Poet Genius?

     Couldn't this document be one of the nonexistent intellectual traces 

of the "real" or "true"    Shakespeare, we are looking for? 

(386)Who was Edmond Howes ? Any relation to the Shakespeare authorship Problem ? (-1-)

Not a single intellectual trace of the worlds most powerfull "brain"during 

his 25 years in London !

The Authorship Absurdity of William Shakspere (Stratford):

John Stow 1605

Edmond Howes 1607

1607 1607

John Stow  an English historian, wrote  "The Annales,  Chronicle of England"  from 1565 until his death 1605 (reprinted and enlarged 15 times.) After his death a new author Edmund Howes in 1607 continued the Chronicles (The Abridgement ... "with matters forreign and domestical) reprinted 1611, 1615, 1631) signfi-cantly enlarged:               Who was  Edmond Howes? Since   virtually nothing is known about  him we are dependent on the information A) of his  preface "to the honest and friendly" Reader  1607 (See faksimile excerpts ) and B) of his "Epistle Dedicatoire" to the Lord Major of London  Henrie Rowe. In his preface (A) he argues why he is enlarging Stowe's  book,  he complaines [pluralis majestatis] that there was a memorable accident which resulted to be buried in oblivion and that he stands amazed, heaving already been condemned, and judged before he was tried or heard to speake.

In his Epistle (B)  he reveals the reasons for the secrecy of his name...he does not want to leave a scandal for posterity.  - 

 Small exerpt of the Epistle: 

I entered into particular conference with every man whose names hade been divulged.[who divulged my name]. Some of them of honorable rancke, and reverend qualities:  all of them learned, and of good sufficiencie, some wherof answered me, they thought that the giving out of their [my] names in this sort, was rather done by their secret enemies, of purpose to draw them into capital displeasure, and to bring their [my] names and lives into a general question , then for any other good; other said , Who doth this worke must flatter, which I can not, neither will I wilfully leave a scandal unto my posteritie….I thanke God I am not yet madd, to waste my time,s pend two hundred pound a yeare , trouble my selfe, and all my friends, only to gaine assuranceof endlesse reproch , losse of libertie, and bring all my dayes in question, and....

Who might be behind Edmond Howes?
 Couldn't he be a nonexistent intellectual trace of the "real" or "true" Shakespeare, we are looking for? (see next 2 Blogs)

...  who by an accident was buried in oblivion...had already been condemned ...had lost his liberty ...brought his name and live into a general question.....

(385) David Riggs didn't discuss the pro's of the Marlowe / Shakespeare authorship!

Riggs committed himself to the nullity of the Marlowe /Shakespeare authorship theory. - 

Why?

 It's  barely acceptable, that the  Calvin-Hoffman Price winner Prof.Riggs didn't deal at least in one chapter of his  "Marlowe book" with the Marlowe /Shakespeare authorship controversy.

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David Riggs ,  English professor (Emeritus) at Stanford University in 2004 published a  book
                          

 "The World of Christopher Marlowe"

                            now available as a NOOK book.

I wonder why David Riggs has not processed the literature ( positive ---> arguments) of the --->Marlowe / Shakespeare authorship controversy for the interested reader , in at least one chapter. Would this not have been appropriate in the 21st century?

He has early committed himself to the nullity of the Marlowe /Shakespeare authorship theory. -

 Astonishingly enough :

 he won the Calvin-Hoffman prize 1598! s.Blog 188) which was - according to the statutes - hardly compatible with his Price Essay.

(384) Christopher Gaze cementing the Shakespeare authorship dogma

Shall I compare Christopher to a summers day juggler? or Hamnet to Hamlet?

Christopher Gaze  schmoozes the audience connecting Shakspere [the death of his son Hamnet)] with Shakespeare [Sonnet18/Hamlet]

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Christopher Gaze

Watch the entertaining and inspiring speech of Christopher Gaze,  Artistic Director of Vancouver's Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival.-

                Shakespeare is everywhere

at a TEDx Vancouver Event.

I am not certain, wether Gaze is aware  how strongly he helps to cement the authorship Dogma of the Stratfordman  as the dramatic Genius and Poet of sonnet 18.-

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(383) Main stream media begins to admit inconsistencies in Marlowe's (Shakespeares] life and death.

The timing of Marlowe's death is extremely suspect !

Collections of popular Video Mini Biographies on the Internet contain a short presentation of Christopher Marlowe.-

Even though various statements on Marlowe are misleading  e.g., that Marlowe

  -> was stabbed in the eye,...(above the eye)
 -> was converted to catholicisme,  (pure speculation)
  -> provided what the audience wanted:  violent sensational fiction , (biased statement)
 -> achieved popularity and fame just  before Shakespeare (not correct)
  ->had a wonderfull influence on Shakespeare (wrong speculation)
  ->was never married...(who knows?)

.....nevertheless the public media more and more seem to admit (Video as an example)  by publicly expressing that Marlowe......

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 "....... died in typically sensational circumstance ...this is thought by many people to be simply a cover. A few days prior he had been accused of treason and heresy: 

 ...the weird timing of this death ( deadly accused of high treason and heresy, but killed because of a reckoning) is exremely suspect.-


 ---> for more Details click and read --->  Pal Faklens Paper 

Christopher Marlowe - Mini Biography (TV-PG; 4:

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(382) Could Shakspere have gained his Unversality in Stratford?

 Could  Shakspere have gained  his  Unversality in Stratford? 

Harold Bloom's "Shakespeare the Invention of the Human"

Stefan Herbrechter "Posthumanist Shakespeares"

Craig Dionne "Posthuman Lear"

Prof. Kiernan Ryan Professor of English Language and Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK and Emeritus Fellow of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, wrote the book „“Shakespeares Universality“, trying – (as a book review tells) - to reclaim 

the idea of Shakespeare's timeless universality

 from reactionary and radical critics of posthumanists such as Stefan Herbrechter, Craig Dionne a.o

The idea that Shakespeare was "The Inventor of the Human" (Harold Bloom), has lately been discredited by „The posthumanists“ claiming Shakespeare was involved in and complicit in the
                                                 

    invention ot the "Inhuman". 

Ryan is looking for the relationships between the "Human" and the "Inhuman" in Shakespeare's work. He explains the profoundly anachronistic nature of Shakespeare's art as a criticism of the "Actual" from the perspective of the "Possible".-

Isn’t Shakespeare’s Universalism an expression of an unprecedented brain ability of his dialogic dialectic capabilities and wisdom, the highest stage of cognition, art and philosophy? 

...isn't Ryans "Universalism" of Shakespeare a tautologic paper tiger ?

Did Shakspere gain his Universality in Stratford?

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(381) Christopher Marlowe's the real Shakespeare on the rise!?

Shapiro did not deal with Marlowe in "Contested Will", 

how could he come to the conclusion that behind Marlowe there is a lot more energy?

Jennifer Howards senior reporter for The Chronicle,  March 28, 2010 wrote an article  entitled

            A Shakespeare Scholar Takes on a 'Taboo' Subject.-.

The article was a review  on James Shapiros new Book "Contested Will" , which confirms his long fixed orthodox view that William Shakspere of Stratford-upon-Avon created the plays and poems associated with his name.


Jenniffer Howard  realized that Shapiro was not interested  in rehashing the authorship debate  and did not attempt an exhaustive review of the merits of the competing claims. Unfortunately he was not interested 'what' people argue about the authorship question,but 'why' they do it.



Howard seemed surprised to observe that Shapiro
a) dared to argue that the authorship question is the one subject that experts have deliberately neglected  and
b)  to speak out why this subject remains virtually taboo in academic circles, as well as in the consequences of this collective silence.

The final paragraph of Jennifer Howards essay comes to an unexpected conclusion not deductable from the text of her prior article :

"Meanwhile, the authorship debate shows no signs of fading away. Francis Bacon's star has waned, eclipsed long ago by the Earl of Oxford's.  - Now Christopher Marlowe's star is on the rise. "It looks like there's a shelf life to every candidate" of about 75 or 80 years, Shapiro says. "There's a lot more energy and enthusiasm behind Marlowe. To me it's still the same argument. It's just a different life being read into the same plays."

Spapiro did not deal with Marlowe in "Contested Will", how could he come to the conclusion that behind Marlowe there is a lot more energy?

(380) The true Shakespeare’s outing in 1616!

How could it have happened  

that in 1616 a B-text of Marlowe with a modified title "The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doktor Faustus" 

was published, enlarged by a third of its (former) volume. (A-text)

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Stage Instruction Dr.Faustus B-Text 1616 [1619 "the" was changed to "his"]

Excerpt [Faksimile] of a monologue of Dr.Faustus (B-text 1616)

Preliminary note: It wouldn’t  make any sense to discuss Marlowe's authorship under his penname "Shake-speare", unless we accept that he didn’t die but was forced by the crown (W.Cecil) to abandon his deadly threatened „first" life in 1593 (...a glorious life  as the famous poet and Superstar of Londons stage), to feign his death, live a "second" concealed (banished) life in an inner or outer exile, with a permanent loss of his name (identity) and former reputation,  disguised under masked identy(ies) and name(s) writing under a multiplicity of pennames  (such as Shake-speare, Chapman , Davies,  Heywood a.o.)! . -------------------------------------------------------------------- There can be no doubt that Christopher Marlowe personified himself with the figure Dr.Faustus of his play "The Tragicall History of D.Faustus" which was first published in 1604 (A-text), 12 years after the first performance of the play (1592?). How could it have happened  that in 1616 a B-text with a modified title "The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doktor Faustus" was published, enlarged by a third of its volume.   [ Compare A- and B- texts. Homepage Peter Farey] Who could have written the late B-text? Marlowe in 1616 [the year of Shakspere's death] was "officially" dead for almost 25 years.-  When Faustus in  1616   is complaining bitterly..."(s.Faksimile above)... Knew you not..., I was limited for 24 yeares, to breath on earth, and you had cut my body... ...he is clearly coming out,. But at that time this could only be understood  by a minor  group of  insiders (nobility, intellectuals, artists) and later has been fully covered  up to this day for various reasons.

Why Academe is not yet  ready to re-open the discussion  and to break the apalling Taboo?

For more  details  I refer to the non-fiction book:(engl.Summary----> "The true Shakeakespeare: Christoper Marlowe.- Towards a solution of the century old authorship problem."- (No english publisher was willing to share the risk to publish the book , summarized in one of  the subseqent Video.

(379) Shakespeare's plays reflect strong french connections of its true author!

Some calculations everybody can do !

There can be no doubt that the plays of Shakespeare contain footprints and traces from its authors life . - When tracing the words "France" or "French" alone in Shakespeares Play ( by using the Search sytem "OpenSourceShakespeare“") you will find them about 500 times in 21 of Shakspeare's plays .

When tracing in the Search sytem "Shakspeare searched the word -->"french" yielding french connections including names, language, geographie etc ), you get 400 text entries out of 20 Shakespeare Plays.

Thus the author of the Shakespeare Plays must have had powerfull french connections and was deeply familiar with France, its history, language, geography , traveling etc.- Henry V alone indicates that the author was fluent in french.-

There are no sources whatsoever of Shakspere's (Stratford) french knowledge or education and traveling in France.

English fugitive papists
resiants at Rhemes 1588
Marlowe alias Georg Wither

(378) Autobiographical Shakespeare ?

Some calculations and reflections everybody can do !

1.) There can be little doubt that the plays of Shakespeare contain strong  footprints  and traces from its authors life . - The author, the "true" Shakespeare  cannot possibly have invented the amount of important traits, pschological key themes and motifs without incorporating his own deep (emotional) multilayer life experiences.

2.) It wouldn’t  make any sense to discuss Marlowe's authorship under his penname "Shake-speare", unless we accept that he didn’t die but was forced by the crown (W.Cecil) to abandon his deadly threatened „first life“ (...a glorious life as the famous poet and Superstar of Londons stage), to feign his death, live a second hidden, concealed (banished) life in an inner or outer exile, with a permanent loss of his name (identity) and former reputation,  disguised under masked identy(ies) and name(s) writing under varying pennames  (such as Shake-speare)! .

3.) You may convince yourself that these life features dominate Shakespeare‘s plays in a very  conspicious and abundant way by giving some simple „calculations“ with the help of todays  internet Shakespeare Search Machines (such as  „OpenSourceShakespeare“ and „Shakespeare Searched“) a meaning !

There you learn how often and in how many plays Shakespeare used specific terms/words  , such as

Used Word                Frequency (x times)          Number of Plays/Poems        

hid/e/ing/den                        182                                   39
banish/ed /ment/                  166                                   25
shadow/ed/ing/y                   113                                   31       
disguis/ed                               57                                   27    
mask/ed                                  54                                   21
exile/d                                     34                                  12       
dead-living                             32                                   15
feign/ed                                    29                                  15

honour                                   888                                                                        
name                                      727                                          
fame/famous                         107
glory                                        93                                                                 
credit                                       75                                               
reput /e/ed/ation/ing               65                                                                         

Academic Shakespeare experts do not estimate  such "statistical" approaches! For William Shakspere, living  throughout his live between Stratford and London, these excessive samples as "life motives" are barely to be understood.

Why William from  Stratford should have used these expressions in such an abundance? Isn’t  the frequent use of these terms a clear indication for  his  life situation and conflicts, for key disputes and  basic "desires" of the unique, true poet and dramatist : Christopher  Marlowe ( alias Shake-speare /+others)?

(377) Shapiro's Shakespeare authorship "proxy war" for the school teachers!

Shapiro a religious warrior? 

... he wants to fight ...against the conspiracy theorists,  the Anti-stratfordian..?

What a bizarre philosophy...

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On the occasion of the release of his book "1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear" James Shapiro gave a presentation at the Folger SHAKESPEARE Library in Washington DC on October 7.  - A  question of the auditorium was referring to the authorship problem.-    [s. also Youtube Video 2010)

                       "Why do people still believe that Shakespeare didn’t write Shakespeare?" 

Shapiro’s Reply (transcript of a recording in You Tube- Video in the meantime disappeared): That is the mystery. The Earl of Oxford died in 1604. - I am writing about 1606. The mystery to me is that there will be many readers who believe, that the Earl of Oxford wrote these plays and will read my book which she would think  given …?….at those times to respond in a way that I say Shakespeare did,  ….will lead her thinking : May be Shakespeare not Oxford wrote these plays. The opposite is true. The reason is: It‘s more of an article of faith than it is having to do with the materials that are in the libraries, and faith is for many people unshakeable.  And when I received from a former supreme court justice, who believes that Shaksspeare didn’t write Shakespeare,  a series of letters, I wrote back saying, it matters, because there is a politique behind the belief that  (name?) Bacon had, which happened to be……. radical  politics, there is politics behind the arguments advanced by manning Looney who is the first great proponent of the Earl of Oxford. -  Anybody said , it doesn’t matter, we just have the plays, lets agree to disagree, it is refusing to acknowledge that it is a political reading of the plays and a notion of who can write plays that swept …?..

   I am happy fighting that fight , so that high school teachers who do not get fellowships of „Folger“ or „British Library“  to do research , dont have to fight that fight! And  I like to fight!

...

What a strange wording !!​ Is Shapiro a religious warrior?
 Against whom he wants to fight that fight? Actually he can only mean  against the conspiracy theorists, the Anti-stratfordian...

Why he has to fight for the  high school teachers who lack ressources to  defend themselves?

(376) Shakespeare's authorship and the Marlowe case.

...if Marlowe is the "true Shakespeare" 

why shouldn't we also be dependent on reading Marlowe's life out of the plays of the "one, and only one" writer ? [alias Shakespeare]. 

    

On the occasion of the release of James Shapiro's  book "Contested Will" in 2010,  Daryl Pinksen,  the author of the Book "Marlowe's Ghost" wrote  an Essay entitled   ---> "Shapiros Straw man" in which he concluded, that Shapiro casually tars all Shakespeare doubters with the same brush, implying that the" Marlowe" case, like the "Oxford" and "Bacon" ones, is dependent on reading Marlowe's life out of the Plays.

Daryl Pinksen  declared Shapiros method and opinion "as simply false" because Marlowe's case would be different!

Pinksen's logic is not easy to understand especially since he is certain at the end,  that ...." there is one, and only one writer with the proven ability to write verse at a Shakespearean Level and that this writer is Christopher Marlowe."

Of course, as Pinksen underlines, comparisons of Marlowe's Texts to the Shakespere Plays and Poems are of utmost importance. (s. Pinksens video!)   But if Marlowe is the true Shakespeare   why  shouldn't we also be dependent on reading Marlowe's life out of the  plays  of the one, and only one writer [alias Shakespeare].

Why should  specific  biographic aspects of life do not even  fit much better compared to Oxford or Bacon,?

That's exactly what has been elaborated in Chapt.8-10 of the book "

Summary of the book
The only True Shakespeare: Christopher Marlowe."

summarized in these Video's:

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