(440) The Shakespeare Stratford Dogma guarded by a hermetically sealed Academic Cartel.

Any scholar would lose his job, his  position or reputation 

in the academic world of "Shakespeare orthodoxy"

 if he would  would engage in the least to the authorship debate and doubt.

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The Shakspeare Stratford Dogma (SSD) is a set of beliefs  (William Shakspere of Stratford is the author of the "First Folio" plays) 

 accepted without exception by the establishment of the literary academic communities and schools worldwide. - 

It is not allowed being questioned or doubted and it cannot be changed or discarded without affecting the very system's paradigm.

Aim of this collusion (SSD, a kind of a "cartel Agreement" or  "code of silence" ) is to obtain an objective outside  the  "laws of Science", to reach an agreement among individuals, securing opinion leadership on  the topic, divide a market and to limit open controversies and competition, due to limited ressources and opportunities.-  It can be broadly defined as a formal agreement among academic and commercial enterprises with conflicting interests.

You should be aware that any scholar would lose his job, his  position or reputation in the Academic World of "Shakespeare Orthodoxy" if he would  would engage in the least to the authorship debate and doubt.

Some famous Anti-Stratfordians

(439) US Web's #1 Blog on Christopher Marlowe peacefully passed away.-What a shame!

Not even a letter of condolence 

of the founder of the blog 

Carlo di Nota Daryl Pinksen

In Febr./March 2015 I wrote 2 blogs (no.266) /  (279)  entitled "US/Canadian -Antistratfordians (Marlowians) seem to have reached deadlock" . I was  considering the yearly contributions to -> “The Web #1 Blog on Christopher Marlowe” over the last 7 years which seemed to demonstrate  – to my  regret- that  the Blog was  heavily in  decline. Unfortunately my premonition has come true.  Only recently I realized, that the blog  was closed.- No parting words, no explanations, no obituary. The blog must have been a chronically ill child from the beginning! What  may have been the actual cause ot the chronical disease? As a German "Marlowian" it makes me feel  sad. Not even a letter of condolence or deeper reflection of the founder  Why the necessity of Closing the blog (Carlo di Nota) ? or of the "International Marlowe Society" Daryl Pinksen.

                                  

"Something is rotten in the state of...?"

(438)The fatal collective academic denial or suppression of Christopher Marlowe as the potential "True Shakespeare"

No author of any essay in this book has not been committed to the Academic Stratford Dogma, indicating the infinite Wisdome (?) of Emily and Emma ..

 (Be aware: for both of the editors and all "Essayists" there is no such thing as  an Authorship Issue)

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Emma Smith

Emily C.Bartels

Two english professors Emily C. Bartels, Rutgers University, New Jersey and  Emma Smith, University of Oxford (as editors) recently published a book with 34 essays on Marlowe's 

          I Works,      II      World and        III   Reception 

• Chronology of Marlowe's life and works .- Introduction
• Part I. Marlowe's Works: 1. Marlowe's canon  2. Marlowe's material texts  3. Marlowe and the limits of rhetoric  4. Marlowe and character  5. Marlowe's dramatic form  6. Marlowe's poetic form  7. Marlowe and the Elizabethan theatre audience  8. Marlowe and classical literature  9. Marlowe's medievalism  10. Reading Marlowe's books  11. Marlowe's translations
• Part II. Marlowe's World:  12. Geography and Marlowe  13. History, politics and   14. Marlowe and social distinction  15. Marlowe, militarism and violence  16. Education, the university and Marlowe  17. Marlowe and the question of will  18. Marlowe and the self  19. Race, nation and Marlowe  20. Marlowe and religion  21. Marlowe and Queer Theory  22. Marlowe and women  23. Marlowe and the New Science  24. The professional theatre and Marlowe
• Part III. Reception: 25. Marlowe in his moment  26. Marlowe and Shakespeare  27. Marlowe in Caroline theatre 28. Marlowe's literary influence  29. Marlowe at the movies  30. Editing Marlowe's texts  31. Marlowe's biography  32. Marlowe and the critics   33. Marlowe now.

The book highlights the importance and influence of Marlowe, the foremost dramatist of his day,  and his writings not only on the work of his contemporaries, including Shakespeare, but also on literary culture to the present.

The paradox of the book is that the editors in their introduction with a stroke of a pen wipe the ("ridiculous") rumors that have been attached to Marlowe such as he wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare or that he did not die in Deptford 1593 etc.-

Given the fact that 2008-2015 numerous media events (books, documentaries, films) have been published,  dealing  with the Shakespeare authorship controversy and Marlowe it seems justified to ask why these aspects of Marlowe were neglected entirely by these fatal "Impressive Ladies".
 

Each essay - I predict- would have been perceived differently if the authors would not have been committed to the fatal academic Stratford Dogma... 

(...i.e. There is no such thing as  a 

SHAKESPEARE Authorship Issue)

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(436) The ludicrousness of the "religious" Shakespeare-Stratford Dogma. (1)

Dogma, 

Dogmatism 

and the “Shakespeare authorship”

Francis Crick

Francis Crick, a nobel  laureate in medicine (molecular biology) in his  autobiography, What Mad Pursuit,  wrote about his choice of the word dogma and some of the problems it caused him: when he wrote about the  Central Dogma of Molecular Biology : “... As it turned out, the use of the word dogma caused almost more trouble than it was worth  Jacques Monod pointed out to me that I did not appear to understand the correct use of the word dogma, which is a belief that cannot be doubted... I used the word the way I myself thought about it, not as most of the world does, and simply applied it to a grand hypothesis that, however plausible, had little direct experimental support.” ---------------------------------- The Stratford Dogma ( i.e. William Shakspere of Stratford is identical with the author  of Hamlet, Macbeth or King Lear) is a view,  a "belief" accepted by the academic community of anglistic literature  troughout the world  without being questioned or doubted. Dogmata are found in religions where they are considered core principles that must be upheld by believers of that religion. As a fundamental element of religion, the term "dogma" is assigned to those tenets which are considered to be unanimously agreed upon, such that their proposed disputation or revision effectively means that a person no longer accepts the given religion as his or her own, or has entered into a period of personal doubt. "Dogma" is distinguished from theological "opinion" regarding those things considered less well-known. Rejection of dogma may lead to expulsion from a religious group. Dogmatism , a reaction to scepticism.- As a possible reaction to skepticism, dogmatism is a set of beliefs or doctrines that are established as undoubtedly in truth. They are regarded as  truths relating closely to the nature of faith.

The "religious" Stratford-Shakespeare Dogma(tism) has meant that any doubt, contradiction, research etc. will be punished as a damnable conspiracy theory with  an exclusion from the academic community and from access of conventional medias!

One must hope that this horrifying scenario is slowly dissolving with the upcoming collapse of  mainstream boredom!

(435) Why on earth in 1628 the name of the poet "Shake-speare" was allegorically veiled: à Quassatione & Hasta?

The fatal Consequences of the total academic Denial of a Shakespeare authorship research!

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In the 3rd edition (1628) of a "Handbook on Rhetoric" ("Χειραγωγία, Manuductio ad Artem Rhetoricam ...",1st Edition 1621) the author Thomas Vicars,  a highly educated literary man, enumerates  the best English poets (Spenser, Drayton, Wither,  ). The author refers to his youth, where he wrote a large number of epigrams,  quoting 3 and alludes to a fourth. An epigram (John Owen is credited with) appear on the title of the book.  He recommends 2 contemporary poets George Wither and John Davies to whom he  adds "that famous poet"   camouflaged .-

Shakespeare the preeminent poet of England,  is mentioned not by name but allegorically,  thus not detectable by an average London citizen !

Istis annumerandos censeo celebrem illum poetam qui a quassatione et hasta nomen habet,

Translation:...to those [poets], I think,  that famous poet  should be  added, which has its name from the shaking ("shake" = quassatione) of the "spear (" = hasta ")

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What may be the reason  that even 12 years after the death of William from Stratford the poet Thomas Vicars did not mentione the name "Shakespeare" in the same breath together with his contemporary poetic colleagues?

(Spencer, Drayton , Wither and others, in later editions)

Doesn't  this fact represent an impressive clue to an existent historical Shakespeare-Authorship issue?(1621)

(434) Why on earth in 1598 did a Charles Butler cover-up the name of the poet Shake-speare?

Why the preeminent poet of England "Shake-speare“ was omitted

 but not „Drayton“  in 1598?

A certain Charles Butler in the Second Edition of Latin "Rhetoricae" (1598 s.Faksimile )  [First Edition 1597: Rameae Rhetoricae]  compared the best ancient poets  Homer, Vergil [Maro], Ovid  with the best contemporary English poets Spencer, Daniel, Drayton. 

Why the preeminent poet of England, Shake-speare had to be concealed?

Translation (Charles Butler:) "best poets"*  * Those amongst our poets most deserving of comparison with Homer, Virgil and Ovid are Edmund Spencer, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton:  and another, full of ingenuity and artistic skill (of which this age is fertile ). first of all a teacher, alone obscured by the light of his time, ---[and]Geoffrey Chaucer.

Academic Shakespeare experts haven't yet explained, why this highly educated Charles Butler  did not mention Shake-speare!

 Charles Butler is said to have graduated in the same field  (Master of Arts) in the same year than Marlowe (1587) , in Oxford. - He is said to have accepted a pastorate at Wootton St Lawrence in 1600 and served that rural post to his death in 1647.

According to Encyclopedias  Charles Butler  (1560–1647), was one of the forefathers of English "apiarists ", he was a logician, linguist , grammarist, author, composer, Music theorist, Pastorate (Vicar of Wootton St Lawrence, near Basingstoke, England), 

and an influential beekeeper.!!

It wasn’t until 1586 that it was recognized that the head of the honey bee colony is a female queen. This news was popularized by Charles Butler… prior to that, it was assumed the head of the colony must be a male – a ‘king’.

(433) The "self conflict" ["Automachia"] of George Goodwin, alias Marlowe the "true "Shake-speare" 1607!

The tragedy of Christopher Marlowe (alias Shake-peare),

 forced to abandon his identity (his selfe, his name) permanently...

Extracts (4 pages) of George Godwin "Automachia (1607) or, the Self-conflict of a Christian. (later: Auto-Machia: or Self-Civil-War.)

Philosophical "Complementaries", the poetic hallmark of Marlowe (Quod me nutrit me destruit) --------------------------- At the beginning of 1607 an unknown poet George Goodwin dedicated as a 'small poetic New-yeares-Gift' to Mary Neville  (Daughter of Thomas Sackville, First Earl of Dorset - 'Alia Minerva' "Another Pallas", which the poet finds as an approximate anagram of her name) a  booklet „Automachia the self conflict of a Christian, which  can be seen as the expression of an outstanding poet:  "Both right and Wrong with me indifferent are:      My Lust is Law: what I desire, I dare:     ( Is there so foule a Fault, so fond a Fact,     Which Follie asking, Furie dares not act?),     But Art-lesse-hart-lesse in Religion's cause    (To doo her Lessons, and defend her Lawes)." In his most artistic  "self-reflexivity", Goodwin’s inwardness mingles  prolific "Existentialist" philosophic ideas of self-becoming and freedom  with  real authentic suffering of his life.- There can be no doubt that the poet must have shared  a deep interest in the creative fusion of philosophy and his own authenticity.- Shakespeare’s work is full of questions about the way we exist as ourselves and as  beings in a society.  Tragedies, such as  Macbeth, Othello, Cymbeline, The Winters Tale, Coriolan, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar etc., exhibit existentialist reading. Charlotte Keys, 2013 ) Timon’s withdrawal from society and the suicidal intensity of his declaration that ‘nothing brings me all things’ (Timon of Athens, V.ii.73) has an extraordinary existential power. Tormented by his tortured consciousness, Macbeth is a man whose  mind is ‘brain-sickly of things’ (II.ii.44). Macbeth consciousness struggles to posit a fixed self, only to find that within moments that self has morphed into another.

The self-conflict between  self-experience  and philosophical dilemmata of identity, (his own self,  and authenticity) of Marlowes life   fits perfectly with his autobiographical situation (loss of identity , his own self  etc...) Again and again Marlowe alias Shakespeare challenges and rejects normative structures of identity .
 Disguise is much more than a convention ; it is a necessity and, paradoxically, a form of being, both more and less than usual.

Marlowe can only be what he truly is, by not being himself!

(432) What on earth entitled so-called "experts" to exclude the true "Shakespeare" as the author of the "Mucedorus" play?

Mucedorus with no autobiographic roots whatsoever?  

-  The complex question of Shakespeare's authorship can not be solved without Marlowe.

Why the author of "Mucedorus" 1598 , the most popular play of the Shakespeare period,  remained anonymous? - Why Mucedorus was not written by the "true" most popular Shakespeare ?

Title page of "Mucedorus", first Edition 1598 .- Most popular play of the Shakespeare period

Mucedorus , the most popular play of the Shakespeare period, went through 17 editions between 1598 and 1668.-  The words, “Newly set foorth,” on the title-page 1598 of the first Edition (s.Faksimile) may indicate  that it was even written and produced at earlier times; The appearance of the morality figures of "Envy" and "Comedy" in the induction and epilogue indicate an earlier  date of production. The name Mucedorus, and the disguise of that prince as a shepherd, recall one (Musidorus) of the two heroes of Sidney’s Arcadia. The question as to the author of the  „Mucedorus“ play is controversial until today. Some attributed the whole of the play to Shakespeare (the first advocate of this hypothesis was the German poet Ludwig Tieck;) Others think it not improbable that the scenes added in the edition of 1610 (s.Faksimile), were written by Shakespeare, whilst a third group of critics claim that Shake-speare had nothing at all to do with Mucedorus, other Elizabethan dramatists such as Lodge, Greene, or Peele,  composed it in the beginning of his dramatical career. A Spanish prince disguises himself as a shepherd , as a hermit,  as a wild man of the woods, as a bear  who combines cannibal instincts with a nice taste for romance, as a rustic clown; the  bear  instructs the princess  how to distinguish between the hero lover and the Coward — these are all most notable ingredients not only of the play (multiple disguises, banishments from court,  revealing his identity) but also of the biography of the anaonymous author (Christopher Marlowe). Does anyone believe, that the frequency of the dominant themes of  "Mucedorus", the "loss of identity" corresponding to the destiny of Marlowe (banish, banishment,  exile, disguise, hiding, concealment, hermit, secrecy etc.) has no autobiographic roots whatsoever? A few extracts of single lines of the "Mucedorus" play Segasto. You are still in your knavery, but sith I cannot have his life, I will procure His banishment for ever. Come on, sirrah,  II/4 Mucedorus. Can Amadine so churlishly command, To banish th' shepherd from her lather'.-, court? 2  III/1 Mucedorus. I linger life, yet wish for speedy death. Amadine. Shepherd ! Although thy banishment ahead be decreed,  IKII/2 Mucedorus. Ah, Amadine, to hear of banishment is death, Ay, double death to me, but since 1 must depart, One thing 1 crave — III/2 Mucecedorus. Yet great dislike, or else no banishment. Amadine. Shepherd, it only is Segasto that procures thy banishment. Mucedorus. Unworthy wights are most in jealous . Amadine. Would God, they would free thee from banishment, Or likewise banish me     III/2 Segasto. Why, thou knave, did I not bid thee banish the shepherd, buzzard ?   III/3 Segasto. I tell thee, the shepherd's banishment   III/3 Segasto. Then you will not tell me whether you have banished him, or no ? Mouse.[Clown] Why, 1 cannot say banishment, an you would give me a thousand pounds to say so. Segasto. Why , you whoreson slave, have you forgotten that I sent you and another to drive away the shepherd? Mouse.[lown] What an ass are you; here's a stir indeed, here'smessage, errand, banishment, Mucedorus. Ay, that's a question whereof you mayn't be resolved.You know that I am banish'd from the court, go I know likewise each passage is beset, So that we cannot long escape unknown, Therefore my will is this, that we return, Right through the thickets, to the wild man's cave, And there a while live on's provision, Until the search and narrow watch be past: This is my counsel, and I think it best  IV/5 Amadine. Well, shepherd, sith thou sufferest this for mv sake, With thee in exile also let me live, (...)Unless thy wisdom suit mi- with disguise, According to my purpose. I/1 Enter Mucedorus, to disguise himself. II Come, habit, thou art fit for me. [He disguiseth himself. No shepherd now, an hermit I must be. Methinks this fits me very well; Now must I learn to bear a walking staff, And exercise some gravity withal. Mucedorus . Yes, princel) horn, my father is a king, My mother queen, and of Valentia both. [Throwing off his disguise. King. What, Mucedorus? welcome to our court! What cause hadst thou to come to me disguis'd?  V/1 And thou bright sun, my comfort in the cold, Hide, hide thy face, and leave me comfortless; I'll lei out all the rest, to see if he be not hid in the barrel; an I find him not there, I'll to the cupboard; I'll not leave one corner of her house unsearched. V faith, ye old crust, I will be with you now. III/6 Comedy. How now, Envy? what, blushest thou already? keep forth, hide not thy head with shame,  V/1 And at his 'parture bound my secrecy By his affection's loss, not to disclose it. But care of him, and pity of your age, Makes my tongue blab what my breast vow'd — concealment. IV/2 To-morrow the performance shall explain What words conceal: till then, drums speak, bells ring, Give plausive welcomes to our brother king.V/1

(431) Epilogue to the final last [5th.] Edition of “The True Shakespeare: Christopher Marlowe” (Jan 2016)

A hefty slaty review of orthodox  Stratfordian Prof. Werner von Koppenfels 

in the „Frankfurter Allgemeine“(FAZ)...

Prof. (Emeritus) Werner von Koppenfels

After its first appearance Prof. Werner von Koppenfels, Emeritus, former Professor of English of the University of Munich, savaged mercilessly the German Book  "The real Shakespeare: Christopher Marlowe" in a review for the german newspaper "Frankfurter Allgemeine" FAZ on Nov 2011!  entitled:  So eine Maulwurfexistenz ist doch enorm anstrengend    ["Such a mole existence is nevertheless extremely demanding"]. The question remains whether the FAZ review caused the german  medias  afterwards to treat the book even more merciless by ignoring it completely ? For the violence of the FAZ attack there may be some reasons: 1) either the author of the book was unable to recognize himselves as a "conspiracy theorist", as a "madman" or "paranoid", (as he was denounced elsewhere) or 2) our critic feels through the book on a sore point taken, what he's trying to cover up by that he puts it in the pillory, or 3) Koppenfels'  age no longer allows him to skip the hurdles of traditional, dogmatic long fixed perspectives. - ---------------- By nature, I am inclined to the third alternative. Not simply because  having never suffered before from delusions and avowedly never knitted in any conspiracy ....  All the facts, arguments, reasoning and evidences on 700 pages were not of a primary interest for solidified biased, Prof.Koppenfels,  Koppenfels alone was  interested in the secondary motives of a  "scientific outsider" who  dared to shake  the sacrosanct version of the Stratford Dogma. What a shame,  it was just too much for a goth.