Anthony Munday is often done down by being constantly referred to a “lesser playwright”.
If you realise that this is not the case, many things change
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If these epithets had not been constantly applied to Munday, he would have been revealed as Shake-Speare over a hundred years ago, when the only handwritten Shake-Speare play "Sir Thomas More" discovered so far was analysed and found to be in Munday’s handwriting.
One of Marlowes most significant life Mottos are "Paradoxes" or "Contrarities" (Quod me nutrit me destruit) s.Blog
One of Marlowes most significant life Mottos are "Paradoxes" or "Contrarities" (Quod me nutrit me destruit) s.Blog
It cannot be purely coincidental that in the year of Marlowe's disappearance 1593 a booklet entitled
"The Defence of Contrarities. Paradoxes against common opinion" [Marlowe's Life Motto or Philosophy, on his Portrait)]
appeared, in wich an unidentifiable translator A.M. (Experts recognized Anthony Munday ) declaims…
... that for him that has lost his wordly honours and preferments he ought not to be greeved…
in nr.6 (of his 12 declamations s. Faksimile) or
that for the Exiled it is better to be banished than to continue in liberty!
in nr.9, (s-Faksimile)
... that for him that has lost his wordly honours and preferments he ought not to be greeved…
in nr.6 (of his 12 declamations s. Faksimile) or
that for the Exiled it is better to be banished than to continue in liberty!
in nr.9, (s-Faksimile)
