(255) John Taylor's "carricature"(1642) of Shakespeare . An authorship debate from the very beginning!

John Taylor declared "living" poets of his time beeing not able to speak, but only to show their worth on paper, they had no "ground wheron to set their feete"

Excerpt of the introductory peom "To the reader" out of "Heads of all fashions.  Poem (nr.14)   out of "Heads of all fashions!1642

In a privately printed note on Elisabethan Poets Basil Brown 1911 noticed  that not even 20 years after the appearance of Droeshouts Copper engraving of Shakespeare in the "First Folio"FF(1623) a carricature of the FF drawing was published in a small pamphlet  "Heads of all Fashions" 1642  by an anonymous author (identified as John Taylor), with an introductory poem 

"To the gentle reader" and  27 small poems (see  examples above)

  
John Taylor also wrote  "There's many a head stands for a sign,
                                          Then gentle reader why not mine?"
                                                                       or
                                         "Tho' I deserve not, I desire
                                         The laurel wreath, the poet's hire."

in Anon.:"Heads of all Fashions" 1642

In John Taylor: The Praise of Hampseed (1623)

There are good reasons

 to add the waterpoets name John Taylor to the pseudonyms of Marlowe (alias Shake-speare).

In Taylors pamphlet "The praise of Hamp-seed (1623 s.Faksimile )" he declared many "living" poets of his time beeing not able to speak but only  to show their worth on paper, they were not "real", they had  no "ground wheron to set their feete" (except  Jonson - therefore "scarcely")