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)
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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.
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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.
