3 Issues of Wits Recreations (1640, 1641, 1650) of an anonymous author. Each Issue represented a modified , enlarged Version
1640, about 15 years after the appearance of the First Folio and 14 Years after Francis Bacon's death an unidentified anonymous author in a book "Wits Recreations" with Epigrams, Epitaphs and others [s.Faksimiles] dedicated Epigramm 25 (, in the 1640 Edition only . s.Faksimile ) to William Shake-speare (Note his hyphenated name!):
Therein he gave a striking warning how to deal with the famous poet Shake-speare: We [Pluralis majestatis, the author himself] should be silent in the praise of the "real" poet" , otherwise we would harm him by blasting "the authors protective Firewall" ("thy Bayes") [SOED bay 1581: an embankment or damn]
Therein he gave a striking warning how to deal with the famous poet Shake-speare: We [Pluralis majestatis, the author himself] should be silent in the praise of the "real" poet" , otherwise we would harm him by blasting "the authors protective Firewall" ("thy Bayes") [SOED bay 1581: an embankment or damn]
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There is no reasonable explanation which fits with "William from Stratford" or "Francis Bacon"
. Why in 1640 Shake-speare should not be praised , had he really been the author?
In 1640 the most plausible explanation must be that the true Shakespeare (alias Marlowe ) was still alive!
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