(480) Shakespeare the adorable teamplayer? Is absurdity even possible to increase?

 Is absurdity even possible to increase?

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Gary Taylor

The Guardian  on October 23 reported , that  Shakespeare’s collaborative work is even greater than  estimated over the last decades. - Using computerised text tool analysis 23 US/english academic Shakespeare scholars have contended that Shakespeare‘s collaboration with other playwrights  was far more extensive than has been realized before.

Shakespeare expert Gary Taylor told the Guardian that they underestimated the amount of Shakespeare’s collaborative work: In 1986  8 (>20%) of 39 plays were identified on their title pages as collaborative, in 2016 it were 17 of 44 Plays (>38%)

Henry VI parts 1, 2 and 3 are among those  plays that they now believe contain writing by Christopher Marlowe: 

They had been able to verify Marlowe’s presence strongly  and clearly enough.- Gary Taylor:  We can now be confident that they [Marlowe & Shakespeare] didn’t just influence each other, but that they worked with each  other. "Rivals sometime collaborate“
We have added   evidence from  phrases that occur in the passage being tested. Marlowe’s works contain many more such parallels than any other playwright,” Taylor added.

How could such an absurd/ bizarre assumption of  "Shakespeare as a teamplayer"(s.Blog 448)  arise, derived exclusively on statistical contextual analysis.  

- Is absurdity even possible to increase?

No one to this day can imagine and has systematically checked, wether most of  the supposed co-authors (such as Peele, Munday, Heywood, Dekker, Middleton, Fletcher , Wilkins, Chettle   [and others]) were pseudonyms or taken as pennames from living or deceased figures by the true author, alias Marlowe [read Summary]

Gary Taylor Professor of English Florida State University

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(479) In 1645 the"true" Shakespeare, still alive, disclosed the authorship conspiracy and his "false"frontman

The poetical satiric-allegoricall law-suit "The Great Assises (1645)" 

can only be understood when accepting a Shakespeare/Marlowe Authorship conspiracy!
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In  1645 the "true" author wished that the "Typographie", an instrument of art, had never been used! [i.e. that his "artificial" penname Shakespeare had been adapted "typografically"  from the real William Shaksper, Stratford] who possessed ..... [s.below 

... a pernicious head                           ... who has in Art no interest                           ... an employed  Paper-waster                           ... a Mercenary soule                           ... a Poetaster                           ... a Mercinary pen-men of the Stage                           ... a Delinquent  here: Shakespear       ... a Mimicke                            ... an Errour of the Muses                            ... an Abortive Witt                               ... a foule fountain of abuse                            ... a reptile equivocally bred                                         under   some  hedge -------------------------------- Characterisation of the  "false Shakespeare" from Stratford.

It indicates that from the early beginning  there were advocates of the Shakespeare authorship plot claiming that 

it was a “matter of Typography”. -   

Different spelling implied, as R.C. Churchill ["Shakespeare and his betters" 1958) puts it, "that there must have been two men: one, the Stratford man whom they mostly call 'Shaksper' or 'Shakspere', the other the real author  whom they call 'Shakespeare' or 'Shake-speare' (with the hyphen)."  

Twenty years after the appearance ot the "First Folio" in 1644 the anonymous author of "The Great Assises" [the true Shakespeare alias Torquato Tasso, alias Marlowe, alias  alias alias ...] wished that an instrument of art (the "Typographie") had never been used! [Shakspeare versus Shak e speare] which characterized  "the false Shakspeare" as a mercinary pen-men of the Stage, as a delinquent , a Mimicke , as an errour of the Muses, as an abortive witt, as  foul fountain of abuses, as a Reptile bred under some hedge,, not in geniall bed, where lovely art  with a brave wit conjoyn'd engenders poets of the noblest Kind  [the "true Shakespeare"]

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(478) The "Great Assises" can only be understood when accepting a Shakespeare/Marlowe Authorship conspiracy!

A late, highly allegorical disclosure and self defense of the yet living "true Poet Genius"[Shakespeare  alias Marlowe]

and his arguments, activities, idols and writings, 

(incognito Marlowe alias Shakespeere / Drayton / Heywood, /Wither , /Sandys, /Taylor etc ..)

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"The Great Assises"  has long been attributed to George Wither as the author, but this is by no means certain. (Joseph Haslewood 1810 discussed the identity of the author and stated that he "must leave it attributed to anon." )

Content:
In an allegorical  lawsuit of a divine "supreme"  Court ("The great Assises) of Apollo  the italian Poet Torquato Tasso (1544 – 1595)  is ordered to execute Apollos just commands,... to bring in alive or dead each one that... had defiled the presse with Pamphlets scarrilous, and vile, traduced with malignant Spirits and Person of honorable worth and merits.

Tasso [alias dead Marlowe]  has to disclose  12 malefectors, his own substitues or sub-identities  which are tried and hauled before a jury of poets (12 of his own pseudonymous substitutes, his poetical identities, William Shakespeare (s.Blogs ...),  George Wither (s.Blog 257/258, Blogs 352-356, Blogs 469-474) , Thomas Heywood  (s.Blogs 331,471).)  Michael Drayton  (s.Blogs 274, 322-323,) Thomas  May (Blog   xxx)  George Sandes (Blogs 223, 238...)   Josuah Sylvester, (Blogs 451- 455) Beaumont / Fletcher etc.

Both the Delinquents (Malefactors) and   the Poets (Jurors , persons of honorable worth ), the critics, accuse one another; Apollo almost invariably defends the poets.

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(477) David Kathmans insipid denial of a Shakespeare authorhip controversy

 For David Kathman the  Marlowe /Shakespeare idea has not even a fringe status 

within the  field of Shakespeare authorship studies -  What an Arrogance!

David Kathmans Chapter 110 in Vol.2



David Kathman at present  is a chartered Financial Analyst who makes his living as a mutual fund analyst for Morningstar in Chicago.



David Kathman

He has a PhD in linguistics from the University of Chicago.- The majority of his scholarly and media work  over the past decade deals with Shakespeare, especially  the Authorship controversy.- 

He is an ultraconservative orthodox Shakespearean / Stratfordian who  believes that doubt about the authorship  is not justified and that 

            an authorship question does not exist in reality.. -

In Volume 2 of the   Handbook "A Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare" Kathman with his "longstanding expertise as a denier" of a Shakespeare authorship problem obviously was commisioned to write the 

Chapter 110  "The Authorship Controversy".-

His chapter argues against Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford and neither  discuss nor  mention even once  the authorship candidate Christopher Marlowe, even though recent monographies (e.g. C.Hoffman, S.Blumenfeldt, D.Pinksen, B.Conrad a.o.) and media contributions on  the Marlowe issue are worth discussing.
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Kathmans attitude reminds on the 9/11 Commission Report (2004 Chief Editor Philip D. Zelikow) which analyzed the cause of the rapid  symmetric fall of the twin towers hit by 2 planes but didnt even mention the symmetrical vertical free fall of a third skyscraper (WTC-7) with no plane hitting the building. 

       An inexcusable trend-setting inner attitude...

David Kathman belongs to the so-called  "industry in denial".- 

Compare his preconceived opinion below (expressed in the last sentence of his chapter)  with  the "Rebuttals to the Industry “

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(476) Two untimely deaths block the (dis)solution of the Stratford-Shakespeare-Dogma!

   Why  Oxfordians for a century have not even begun to tackle the 1604 issue 

with its abundance of  insoluble literary,  psychological, historical and so many other conflicts ?

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Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593?)

Edward de Vere (1550-1604)

Church Window, Westminster Abbey, London - (Section -Note question mark!)

One baffling Oxymoron  or irony in literary history is  that the two most influential candidates for  Shakespeare's  Authorship , Edward de Vere , 17th Earl of Oxford (†1604)   and Christopher Marlowe (†1593) both  died too early to be seriously discussed .-

Whereas the date of death (1604) of  Edward de Vere is not in doubt, Christopher Marlowe's exact death year today  is in doubt and has even been questioned in the poets Corner of Westminster Abbey


Edward de Vere's  death (1604) occured much  too early....
Accepting the enforced faked death of Marlowe (1593) there would be no need to struggle with the issue of the Oxford Shakespeare authorship and Oxfords untimely death  raising endless questions

Why  Oxfordians for a century have not even begun to tackle the 1604 issue with its abundance of  insoluble literary,  psychological, historical and so many other conflicts ?

.. Without any doubt, in the long run,  Christopher Marlowe holds the  better cards.

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(475) Edward de Vere: the greatest impediment to a solution of the "historical" Shakespeare authorship conspiracy!

The Oxford-Shakespeare Authorship thesis is soon going to be a hundred years old.- 

Was there any progress during a century?

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.... the crucial reason, why over 100 years it has not gained ground, is not that William  from Stratford was the Poet Genius (Be sure he was not!) but that "Edward de Vere" died much too early (1604) and  

no contemporary has ever described him as a literary playwright  and poetical genius....
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Prof. Roger Stritmatter

Roger A. Stritmatter (*1958) is general editor of Brief Chronicles, a delayed open access journal  covering the Shakespeare authorship question and a founder of the modern  Shakespeare Fellowship (SOF), an organization that promotes Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, as the true author of the works of William Shakespeare.

 He is one of the leading modern-day advocates of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship,  and has been called the “first professional Oxfordian scholar”.

In his first self made "YouTube Video" he claims that he...

a) "....has studied the evidence carefully enough to realize that as up to 2016 we are in a significantly advanced stage of what historian of ideas would call a "Paradigm Shift".-

b)" ... has been living with  a 400 year old peece of Mythology who Shakespeare was and what relationship between his life and his works is..."

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 How can Dr. Stritmatter expect a paradigm shift within the next 100 years, if Oxfordians for a century  have not even begun to tackle the 1604 issue with its abundance of  insoluble literary,  psychological, historical and other conflicts ?

... in the long run, I'm afraid,  Christopher Marlowe holds the better cards.

-	Roger Stritmatters first selfmade Video.-

(474) George Wither [apart from Shakespeare]:The single most significant pseudonym of Christopher Marlowe (4)

George Wither was a penname [pseudonym] of Marlowe/alias Shakespeare

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Roundtext: Dum nutrio consumor Last 6 lines of a poem of 30 lines corresponding to this Emblem

Roundtext: Qui me alit me extinguit. Last 6 lines of a Poem of 30 lines corresponding to this Emblem.

 Section (upper left corner) of Christopher Marlowe's Portrait

Christopher Marlowe's life Motto written on his portrait at the age of 21.

"QUOD ME NUTRIT ME DESTRUIT"
describes his dualistic Monism, how seemingly opposite or contrary opinions ("Contrarities") may actually be complentary: 

       All depends on your perspective.

In George Wither's "Emblem-Poem"-Book   Marlowe' s Motto appears almost word by word twice (Book 1 -15 and Book 2 -6 s.Faksismile)

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These observations together with abundant significant contextual informations

 strongly supports the idea of a penname of George Wither  

"quite vanishing out of seeing even 
though he also enjoyed his concealed-being"...

(473) George Wither [apart from Shakespeare]: The single most significant pseudonym of Christopher Marlowe (3)

The Shakespeare Authorship Enigma:
"There were famous Authors of whom we see no signe, that ever they lived "

[concealed behind their pennames!]

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George Wither: A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne (1635)

Prolific George Wither, Emblem 24, Book III, writing daily for 6 decades ("no day without a line"--"Nulla dies sine linea")

Excerpt of George Withers Poem -attached to Emblem 24 - Booke III)

"George Wither" (also Geoffrey Withney) 1585 in the service of William Cecil, 1588, also  writing from Reims (s.Blog 469)  revealed his true nature in "A Collection of Emblemes" (1635) s. also blog 474

 " in sixty, seventy, eightie yeare" wrote an immense amount of literary works ("composing but  each day a line a  text, ten hundred thousands lines  , under migth Authors (names) with famous Workes. -           Authors of whome, we see "no signe that ever they lived "

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Albert Einstein

A propos the  "Shakespeare/Marlowe Authorship" 

Albert Einstein :       
If at first the idea is not absurd then there is no hope for it.” .

1. 
   The "absurd" idea is:      that the true and only author of "Hamlet", "King Lear" or "Timon of Athens" was the deadly slandered poet-genius Christopher Marlowe, who - in consultation with the crown - was allowed to save his life by feigning his death, abandoning name and identity and writing henceforth under changing author names (incl.William Shake-speare, George Wither*1 and many others )

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*1)Be Aware, that our Poet Genius Marlowe - at his official life time - already traveled incognity under pennames such as  George Wither (Reims 1585) or  Geoffrey Whitney (Leyden 1585/86)

(472) George Wither [apart from Shakespeare] : the single most significant pseudonym of Christopher Marlowe (2)

Early on George Wither must have belonged   to  the pseudonyms of Christopher Marlowe, 

George Wither: Title Cover of his "Faire Virtue..." (1622)

George Wither , in "A Collection of Emblems" ,1635

George Wither: Rhomboidall Dirges, out of "Faire-Virtue...!(!622)

In 1622 George Wither wrote his Poems "Fair Virtue, The Mistresse of Phil'Arete". Notice that Shakespeare's "First Folio" had not yet appeared, and nobody had ever reported to have seen or met the poet  Shakespeare.

<----In Withers poetical "rhomboidall dirges" s.Faksimile  we learn from the autor

a) in poem 1: that because he played with the burning coals of...flames he deeply sunk , asking himself if he ever will raise again?

b) in poem 2: that he perished in his youth sweet prime. -   "Unmoaned" he must die  and no man will ever know about his "Fatal time"

Blog 469 could show, that encyclopedic information about George Wither  (e.g. born in 1588!?) is by no means assured knowledge.-

A mighty series of arguments (German)   has been collected that George Wither belonged   to  the pseudonyms of Christopher Marlowe, who had survivied but given up his name and identity.-   (Listen also to the other 4 romboidall dirges .--below!)

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(471) How to explain the gigantic [but lost?] literary output of Thomas Heywood compared to Shakespeare ?

The gigantic [but lost?] literary output of Thomas Heywood compared to  Shakespeare ? 

 Thomas Heywood, of the same age than Shakspere or Marlowe, started his literary career [similarly to Shakspere] late, only after the death of  Marlowe (1593) ! Why ?

Title cover of Thomas Heywoods Play 1633

Epistle "To the Reader", ´in Thomas Heywoods Play "The English Traveler"

How can it be that in 1633 Thomas Heywood in his epistle to the Reader of his Play "The English Traveller" told us

a) that that play was one among 220 plays (Tragedies/Comedies) he had written ("beeing  one reserved amongst two hundred and twenty")

b) that he was fully aware of all his publications ("having intelligence therof") even though they appeared "accidentally"  [SOED,"a note or mark that may be retained or omitted  in a coat of arms "1610]

c) that he never had a great ambition that "his playes" to be read in volumes to beare the title "WORKES"  (such as Jonson.) " and

d) that he thought it appropriate that his plays are not anonymous ("thought it not fit that it should passe as filius populi", a bastard without a father) , thus giving each  play a "literary  father,"  appearing under different  pseudonyms (think of e.g. of Beaumont / Fletcher )

The true Shakespeare: Christopher Marlowe (5th Edition 2016)

                                 There are significant reasons to assume that Thomas Heywood belonged to the multiplicity of  pennames of "The true Shakespeare" (C.Marlowe) with  a gigantic literary output, but under many different pennames and  did  write by no means only 2 plays per year in less than 2 decades

(470) The Marlowe-Shakespeare Conspiracy on Viennese stage: "The wrong Face"

Gerald Szyszkowitz

The wrong Face

I visited a last perfomance of a theater play on MARLOWE  - Oct. 8th 2016 in Vienna.

In 2015 Former Austrian TV-Producer, Theater Director,  Writer, Painter Gerald Szyszkowitz wrote a novel "The Wrong Face - or Marlowe is Shakespeare", representing a passionate plea for the Marlowe/Shakespeare Authorship Thesis.-

I also learned, that in 2016 author and artistic director Gerald Szyszkowitz produced a theater Version of his book for the summer Festival at  the Hyunday Castle in Maria Enzersdorf , as a coproduction with  "

The Freie Bühne Wieden" (Vienna) based on his novel (The Wrong Face - or, Marlowe is Shakespeare)“

The play in 3 acts supports  the presumption that William Shakespeare didn't write the plays that are claimed to be his, but that they were penned by Christopher Marlowe, who did not die as claimed in 1593. 

The obscure historical situation certainly offers well suited material for a theatre play. -



The productions  resumed performances at the Freie Bühne Wieden October 4-8,  2016 which enabled me to watch 

         the last performance.

(469) George Wither [apart from Shake-speare] : the single most significant pseudonym of Christopher Marlowe! (1)

Christopher Marlowe already at his lifetime  wrote

- for safety reasons -  under pseudonyms  such as George Wither, 

Did  2 different George Withers (jun/sen.?) in reality exist?

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Epigramm 45 of "Wits Recreations (WR)" is about George Wyther, wo made himself and its  anonymous author "eternall", though it is a shame that he had no name.

George Withers Views (1588)
of the "Popish Testament ",
 from a fugitive resiant at Reims





George Withers letters (1585)
"An A.B.C. for Laye-mans"









does there exist really a George Wither jn  

Corresponding Dedication to William Cecil 1585

  Shakespeare Experts do not seem  to have identified "that" 
George Wither published literary works  
in 1585 and 1588 (s.Faksimile titles)

Epigramm 45 "To Mr. George Wyther" in "Wits recreations (1640)

Previous Blogs 463 / 464 / 465  concluded  that  contextual contents of "Wits Recreations (WR)" leave no doubt, that its anonymous author must have been  "concealed Christopher Marlowe" alias the "True Shakespeare" (Summary). - In Epigram nr.45 [s.Faksimile] the author obscurely reveals his relation to George Wither, adressing Wither (thou, thy) as another of himself (pseudonym). He himself is talking in the "Plural Majestatis" (we, our). He  twice highlights both their vices [s.SOED] as well as Withers impressive  book "Britains Remembrancer" (1628 s.--vol-1 ---  vol-2)

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There can be little doubt, that Christopher Marlowe already at his lifetime (in the fifteen eighties) wrote - for safety reasons -  under pseudonyms  such as George Wither,

 (1585, the Lay-man's letters to William Cecil, 
 1588, Notes from Reims, Fr​ance)