6 Dec 2016

(490) J.Shapiro: behind each Shakespeare controversy is a more interesting story! - (But of course no authorship issue!)

Shapiro: „The announcement that Marlowe was a co-author of Shakespeare in Henry VI. smells more of sale techniques than scholarship.“
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James Shapiro
Nov.21, 2016 on the occasion of  James Shapiro visit and speech in Louisville, KY  I read in "Insider Louisville that for Shapiro  it is unquestioned that :  "early and late Shakespeare are co-authored plays with other writers!"
Shapiro, however  doesn't buy the Marlowe-Shakespeare Co-Author-Story.: "Spending   years and years and invest hundreds of thousands, if not millions, in a new Oxford University Press -( OUP) edition of Shakespeare” OUP  had to come out with some splashy announcement  that Marlowe was a co-author  of Shakespeare in Henry VI.: 
This  announcement smells more of sale techniques than scholarship.


Is the Shapiro "Sales technique-theory"  really the bigger  and more interesting story  behind the Marlowe/Shakespeare Co-authorship?....."a lot of that noise will be questioned by the scholarly community when we actually get our hands on the evidence.

Shapiro reveals another "interesting story". He received an advanced copy of the new OUP  edition, says there is another bombshell awaiting readers. “This new edition   pretty radically re-orders the ways Shakespeare’s plays were written.”
Shapiro claims that “behind each of these favorite Shakespeare controversies“   is a bigger and more interesting story,” 
 

For Shapiro I predict that the upcoming next Shakespeare controversy  also doesn 't relate in any way to a non existent authorship issue.