(496) Shakespeare Authorship: Griffin revisited ! - T. Watsons poetical idea: Coincidence? Plagiarism? Identical Author?

 The soundest arguments still  shatter at the cliffs 

of the orthodox Stratfordian  narrow-mindedness.

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                                     T.Watson 1582    -   Sonnet 48 - -           B.Griffin 1596  --    Sonnet 26                              

Ekatompathia 1582

Thomas Watson in "Ekatompathia" (1582 - sonnet 48) and 14 years later Bartholomew Griffin in "Fidessa"  (1596 Sonnet 26) wrote  a metaphorical sonnet with a rather similar  topic  of a bird and a  fly "risking" their lives.

In order  to explain this remarkable observation  one would have to test at least 3 hypothesis

1.)  It happened pureley accidental,-    2  authors invented these ideas independently !
2.)  B.Griffin 14 years later plagiarized from T.Watson
3.)  Both authors were identical, the author using  different pennames or  pseudonyms at different times

There would be very very many  powerful arguments to accept thesis nr.3 that "Ekatompathia" and "Fidessa" must have been poetical works written under pennames by the same poet genius  at the age of 18 and 32 years (Marlowe alias Shakespeare)  but even the strongest arguments would shatter at the cliffs of the fatal orthodox Stratfordian  narrow-mindedness.

 It's at present not  worth the  effort!  One inevitably would be disposed at the landfill  of conspiracy theorists.

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