14 Jul 2017

(517) Michael Drayton: A significant Pen-name of the true Shakespeare! (Arguments part 1 / of 6)


Early on, the poet Michael Drayton, has  been considered  a pioneer of the  sonneteering  obsession in Elisabethan England, with significant influences  on Shake-speare’s(!) Sonnets.

This YouTube contribution argues  (first 5 Arguments - part 1/of 6)

why Michael Drayton must belong  to the early "poetical pseudonyms" of the "true" Shakespeare (alias Marlowe).

Argument 1     The missing Overlap
Argument 2     The Authors Sacrifice
Argument 3     His first Death
Argument 4     Marlowes Gaveston
Argument 5     Eloquent Gaveston





(516) Kastans refreshing, but unimaginative interests in the well-known grotesque facts about Shakespeare's will...



David Scott Kastan,  Professor of English at Yale University, one of the General Editors of the Arden Shakespeare, in a recent refreshing lecture  

reflected on the absurdities of Shaksperes Will!

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From  what age onwards,  scientist are no longer interested in searching for better or more plausible own solutions to grotesque, non comprehensible  (i.e. unexplained) facts ?

It does not need any age, it requires only 
an inner arch-conservative (
Stratfordian) attitude!