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| Christopher Marlowe |
A broad consensus with no divergent voices could be found in the media worldwide in these weeks:
Because of new computerized textual "big data" analysis Christopher Marlowe now belongs to the ever growing number of Shakespeare's co-authors.
Within the last decade 18 of meanwhile 44(!) works of Shakespeare have been associated with textual inputs from contemporary collaborateurs. And Marlowe explicitly will now be printed as Shakespeare's co-author of the trilogy of the Henry VI plays in the New Oxford-Shakespeare.-
Also other plays like "Mucedorus" or "Arden of Feversham," are now finally recognized as a collaborative play between Shakespeare and an unknown author (who else but Marlowe? )
The fact that Marlowe is now confirmed as a collaborator is highly ironic! Since the early 19th century Shakespeare researchers have suggested that Marlowe was in fact Shakespeare and the Shakespeare-Marlowe Theory has not only survived up to these days but is gaining ground as a concealed "real" historical conspiracy.- Of course this assumption is only valid:
a) if - for countless reasons - you accept that Marlowe (of the same age than Shakespeare, born only 2 month apart) did not die in May 30th 1593 and
b) if you do not accept the absurdity, that Marlowe and Shakespeare did not timely overlap in their literary activity for a single day (the first work, op.1, of Shakespeare "Venus and Adonis" 1593) printed only after Marlowe's alleged official death.
Already in his detailed analysis, "The influence of Christopher Marlowe on Shakespeare's earlier style" (1886) Shakespeare expert A.M. Verity explicitly wrote :
Because of new computerized textual "big data" analysis Christopher Marlowe now belongs to the ever growing number of Shakespeare's co-authors.
Within the last decade 18 of meanwhile 44(!) works of Shakespeare have been associated with textual inputs from contemporary collaborateurs. And Marlowe explicitly will now be printed as Shakespeare's co-author of the trilogy of the Henry VI plays in the New Oxford-Shakespeare.-
Also other plays like "Mucedorus" or "Arden of Feversham," are now finally recognized as a collaborative play between Shakespeare and an unknown author (who else but Marlowe? )
The fact that Marlowe is now confirmed as a collaborator is highly ironic! Since the early 19th century Shakespeare researchers have suggested that Marlowe was in fact Shakespeare and the Shakespeare-Marlowe Theory has not only survived up to these days but is gaining ground as a concealed "real" historical conspiracy.- Of course this assumption is only valid:
a) if - for countless reasons - you accept that Marlowe (of the same age than Shakespeare, born only 2 month apart) did not die in May 30th 1593 and
b) if you do not accept the absurdity, that Marlowe and Shakespeare did not timely overlap in their literary activity for a single day (the first work, op.1, of Shakespeare "Venus and Adonis" 1593) printed only after Marlowe's alleged official death.
Already in his detailed analysis, "The influence of Christopher Marlowe on Shakespeare's earlier style" (1886) Shakespeare expert A.M. Verity explicitly wrote :
"Among the plays assigned to Shakspere there are four of which it is practically certain that Marlowe was a part author; they are, of course, Henry VI., i., ii. and iii and Titus Andronicus."
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How could it happen that a robust Marlowe-Shakespeare authorship theory seems to have been disposed for ever at the landfill of Shakespeare's concealed bizarre collaborative abilities?
