31 Jan 2017

(503) The grim logic of Oxfordian Richard Malim redating the Shakespeare Plays prior to 1589.

The  anonymous author of "The Arte of English Poesie (1598)"...  

exhibiting  powerful parallels with the language displayed in Shakespeare's plays,  

... must be identified as the greatest English Poet Genius  

(i.e. Marlowe alias 'Shakespeare' )


The same printer Richard Field
used this  emblem a few years later for Shakespeares op.1 
(Venus and Adonis 1593) and op.2 (Lucrece 1594)

  Oxfordian Richard Malim wrote in  Brief Chronicles VII (2016) an article „Oxford and The  Arte of   English Poesie“. One can agree that the anonymous  author of the „The Arte of  English Poesie" [s.Faksimile, 1589]  cannot have been a supposed certain as George Puttenham! 

(s. Blogs - 254 - /  - 333 -). 
Richard Malim

Malim points to interesting parallels of similar wordings  and idioms between „The Arte“ and  „Shakespeare‘s work“, which  by no means can have occured  purely accidental. -
 
But how to explain the contextual connections between both ?

Malims bizarre conclusion is that the dating of Shakespeare’s works must have been prior to 1589, because Puttenham already quoted Shakespeare (1589) , and that this rules the Stratfordman out , as the author of the plays.



Malims final conclusion:  These examples [of wordings] are a small fraction of those available whereby Puttenham’s quotations can be seen to be taken from works (…) written and in circulation before Puttenham’s publication date of 1589. 

Puttenham therefore provides vital pieces of evidence for the dating of works, and these rule out William Shakspere of Stratford-Upon-Avon as the author.“ [thus .... are in favor of the Earl of Oxford?]

Should'nt Malim last sentence be: "The parallels of some wordings and idioms  in the "Arte" 1589 compared to Shakespeare's  later works do manifest the  early genuine inner richness  of the "conceptual literary" brain  of the "true" poet Genius Shakespeare", whoever he was.

Is it conceivable that at the literary climax of  Shakespeare / Marlowe [see--> Marlowe/ alias Shakespeare Thesis] both in his 25th year of life (1589), an unknown author Puttenham wrote nothing else
[-->one exception] than this high profile essay  : "The Arte of English Poesie?" 

If the "The Arte", is exhibiting such powerful parallels with the language displayed in Shakespeare's plays, is'nt it much more likely, that its anonymous author must be identified as the greatest english poet Genius? 
 Is there any reason that speaks against it?