Fidessa" as a prime example
of how devastating the academic Stratford dogma
has misguided literary studies ..(s.video below!)
1 I hide 2 my head 3 a)my face / b)no face 4 I live a) alone / b) as I were dead | 
Last part of Sonett 33 (Fidessa) 1596
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The 62 sonnets of Fidessa by B.Griffin (1596) represent a remarkable rare piece of poesie.
Apparently at present only a single exemplar in the Bodleian Library does exist! It is not certain, that the prename "B." of "Griffin" was „Bartolomew“. Alexander Grossart in 1876 published a first reprint (50 private copies ). He regretted he could add nothing to the poets empty life and biography, since every probable source of information has been explored without success. All information we have is Fidessa, a small volume of "Amatory Sonnets" as Grossart called it.
All 62 sonetts of the poem cycle "Fidessa" can and must be seen as a continuous poetic confrontation between the author himself (concealed Marlowe/ alias Shakespeare) and his destiny.
Various sonnets of "Fidessa" have been identified as putative "plagiarisms" of other authors: The third sonnet in Fidessa, beginning "Venus and yong Adonis sitting by her", was reproduced in 1599 in "The Passionate Pilgrime" (by W. Shakespeare), the Sonnet 35/39 in "Delia" (Samuel Daniel) .
Sonnet 33 (s.Faksimile ) clearly illustrates the situation of the author (Christopher Marlowe/alias Shakespeare). As in Shakespeare's sonnets the author uses the method of repetition (doubling) of specific word to highlight the contextual importance:
He has to hide(1) his head (2) and live (3) alone as if he were dead, with no identity, no face(4)
Apparently at present only a single exemplar in the Bodleian Library does exist! It is not certain, that the prename "B." of "Griffin" was „Bartolomew“. Alexander Grossart in 1876 published a first reprint (50 private copies ). He regretted he could add nothing to the poets empty life and biography, since every probable source of information has been explored without success. All information we have is Fidessa, a small volume of "Amatory Sonnets" as Grossart called it.
All 62 sonetts of the poem cycle "Fidessa" can and must be seen as a continuous poetic confrontation between the author himself (concealed Marlowe/ alias Shakespeare) and his destiny.
Various sonnets of "Fidessa" have been identified as putative "plagiarisms" of other authors: The third sonnet in Fidessa, beginning "Venus and yong Adonis sitting by her", was reproduced in 1599 in "The Passionate Pilgrime" (by W. Shakespeare), the Sonnet 35/39 in "Delia" (Samuel Daniel) .
Sonnet 33 (s.Faksimile ) clearly illustrates the situation of the author (Christopher Marlowe/alias Shakespeare). As in Shakespeare's sonnets the author uses the method of repetition (doubling) of specific word to highlight the contextual importance:
He has to hide(1) his head (2) and live (3) alone as if he were dead, with no identity, no face(4)
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