(542) A weird "Shakespeare "conspiracy theory" : Shakespeare's Apocrypha ?

The Shakespeare Apocrypha:  

a ghostly literary-historical Fake or Hoax!

The "Shakespeare Apocrypha" is a group of several plays and poems printed during Shakespeare's lifetime ....

2 examples of Plays by Shakespeare

    The LONDON PRODIGAL

    A YORHSHIRE TRAGREDY

- Believe it or not!-
.....with his name (Shakespeare) printed on the title ...but not accepted today as his works (...generally deemed to be the work of other uncertain writers.)

Are we really to believe  that a contemporary playwright with the printed name Shakespeare corresponded to a historical fake or conspiracy  ?

Can anybody understand why this weird "Shakespeare [Apocrypha] Conspiracy theory" has been separated from the general "Shakespearean Authorship debate" ?

..as if the autorship debate were unrelated!

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For details click this Video!

(541) Michael Wood disqualifies himself shockingly on the issue of Shakespeare's authorship!

Documentary Shakespeare Filmmaker  Michael Wood's  

in an interview in Paul Bradshaws "Virals History' " dealt 

with the authorship of Shakespeare....

                                  ..formulating  his opinion on the century old question :

Wood must be seen as the most impressive prototypical Ignorant  discrediting "a real existing Shakespeare Autorship problem", 

using most of the dishonest tricks put together in this video!         

                                                                                                                                                   

MICHAEL WOOD:  (2:13 min) " I am fairly  brusque with the Shakespeare deniers, its  a load of rubbish - to be honest- . There is a couple of things, it raises interesting questions;  The key thing is - you know- that it is about  what historians do and this debate like all other debates in history is something historians decide and its about sources, and historians construct their images of the past by sources and you [should] start with the primary [contextual] sources that first hand that eywitnesses the documents that close up, you move out to the others depending on what you have got , 

 Wood:...and if you are going to deny that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare, you deny the primary sources like the Will, 

so it is rubbish ...and nobody of the time thought that and for long after thought that anybody else but Shakespeare wrote Shakspeare,  ( be aware :thats devious! " see B-Wildenthals VIDEO- below!)    

 it 's 19th century fantasy, and unfortunately it's a conspiracy theory  - you know- you have got to look to  the recent American election  there is still a lot of people to think the moon landing didn't happen,  but it is as bonkers as that,  behind it lies a kind of ignorance, and the ignorance is about Tudors Society ....So it is Nonsense on a total level,..." 

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Michael Wood : a likable but shocking Ignorant on a total Level! What a shame!

                                                 Michael Wood's  embarassing ignorance  

                                            on the issue of a Shakespeare authorship problem!

Bryan Wildenthal: Early Shakespeare Doubts

(540) The great deception, Shakekespeares true identity..

Christopher Marlowe ("The true Shakespeare") 

deadly threatened because of high treason and heresy

 had to fake his death  and change identity and Name

 with the help of the crown. 

The V I DE O deals with a contemporary 

 poet and translator "Josuah Sylvester", 

and why his name  must belong to  the multiple pseudonyms 

of the "true" Shakespeare".  (Christopher Marlowe)

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Josuah Sylvester

click this  V I D E O !

(539) Ros Barbers logical fallacies on Shakespeare Authorship Mystery Day.

Is she aware of the problem of "negative circular reasoning"? 

Circular Reasoning

On Nov, 8th 2018  the Second Annual 

Shakespeare Authorship Mystery Day celebration

 took place with  a live stream introduction

 by former Marlowian Ros Barber. 

There she formulated:

https://www.facebook.com/96412830317/videos/1580359555442975/

Barber: (at min 29:50)   "..... shortly after 1594....the name, either the initials W.S. or name Shakespeare started appearing on plays that actually are not his, 

that we know aren't his. 

So there were 7 plays that are part of the Shakespeare Apocrypha which means that they were at one point attributed to Shakespeare,

 we now know for sure they were not written by Shakespeare

 and its very interesting to me that these plays some of which are performed by that company end up beeing published with name or initials of William Shakespeare...it backs up the broker theory   "

How - on earth - can Ros Barber assert that the plays  "The London Prodigal" or "The Yorkshire Tragedy" were not written by Shakespeare.?.. Barber has not even defined if she means William from Stratford or the concealed poet genius, the"true Shakespeare" who must have used the name "Shakespeare" as a pseudonym or pen-name, ( her own live stream is arguing for.)

I suspect that Barber has not even noticed which  logical error of thinking she accomplished.  Let me explain this with a single example:

 This is classical "negative circular reasoning".

                                                   See 1.)Video on Apocrypha

and 2.)  Video on Logical Fallacies ( Circular Reasoning)

(538) It is not enough today to tackle only half of the Shakespeare authorship problem.

Why Keir Cutler never dared to tackle the second part of a dual (2part)  authorship  problem or question?

part 1.)    William Shaksper (Stratford ) is - by no means-  identical with  William Shakespeare, 

                                                              the author of Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello etc ?

part 2.)   Who really is behind the pseudonym William Shakespeare?



                                             Keir Cutlers new Video

A plausible Proposal

(537) The fantastic imaginations of Alexander Waugh

Very  impressive castles in the air ! 

Alexander Waugh is a leading advocate of the Oxfordian theory, the belief that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford wrote the works of William Shakespeare. 

He is a life member of the De Vere Society, [4] and serves as the Honorary President of the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition.[5]

For quite some time he has been running a YouTube channel where he claims to have found surreptitious allusions embedded in 16th- and 17th-century works revealing that the name "William Shakespeare" was a pseudonym 

("I think, this is correct!) , but used by Edward de Vere to write the Shakespeare oeuvre.("I think this is incorrect!"!)

Unfortunately he does not allow comments on his Youtube channel  since he doesn't intend ( as he wrote) to spend the rest of his  life replying and arguing with impudent trolls.  Difficult to understand. It wouldn't  be difficult to erase the trolls (within seconds)  and keep the reasonable  letters and arguments. That's managable! Perhaps there are other reasons:  all his articles  ask for  contradiction.  Lately he made again an interesting contribution about  the hidden secrets in Francis Meres "Palladis Tamia"1598) a key witness for the Shakespeare authorship debate.

Definition  of Chimera (1621) by the "true" Shake-speare
alias Josuah Sylvester

Is Waugh even remotely  sure who Francis Meres really was.  I wonder what kind of idea he has  of how the brain works.-

Does he  really believe that a single  dubious  but congenial Francis M. put such an obscure highly complex inner construction (a fantasic chimera) on paper  whose strange logic 400 years later a single similar congenial Alexander W. is (accidentally?) able to decipher? 

Does he really believe that Meres brain  had a mechanism or a deep need to conceal an unidentifiable truth in such a weird way? 

I assume that "Alexander Waugh" would be able to convince us ,  that it is not accidental that in his own 15 letter  name  unrecognized hidden meanings are concealed (to name a few - to be found in any anagram generator )

Lately  I reflected on Francis Meres (Blog 505).-

A youtube contribution about Drayton. Argument 14 ( at 1h 03 min 20 sec) deals with Francis Meres ! Perhaps it is of some interest for some curious Non-Stratfordian!

                       CLICK VIDEO .--- 

 Alexander Waughs recent Youtube Contribution

                                   "Francis Meres knew..."

(536) John Davies : A double falsehood ? [false identities and name - identical to Shak(e)speare?]

Consider that we learn that at Shakespeares times there existed 

Two high level contemporaneous poets who published with...

the same name "John Davies!", i

the same year "1602"  , in             

the same City in "London about    

                the same literary subject matter"  (the Soul) ,

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 2 masterpieces of philosophical literature

"NOSCE TE IPSUM" and "MIRUM IN MODUM"

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Consider that in the "Scourge of Follies" (Date of print not secured , >1610) t

the one John Davies wrote a dedication to the other! 

 How do you interprete this poem?

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Also note that from Essay 34 in John Davies "Wittes Pilgrimage" (1605) you get  (specific biograhical) ideas about his poignant life situation

Essai 34 in Wittes Pilgrimage (1605)

                                ("Marlowes life situation")

                                                 

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Doesn't this situation in 1605 fits better to someone else [e.g. Marlowe  who was alive but simultaneously dead] than to an unknown destiny of  a certain John Davies?

Doesn't "John Davies" thus represent a Double Falsehood" , identical to William Shakespeare?

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(535) The absolutely amazing "Hero and Leander Triple" in 1598!

No true Poets (named "George Chapman" and "Henry Petowe")  have existed.

The "Hero & Leander Triple" in 1598

Their names [similar to Shakespeare] were Alias names of the unversal genius Marlowe forced to distribute his biographical and poetical cosmos amongst 

a multiplicity of (pseudo) authors or author-names.

(For details reflect this video!)

(534) When and Why to abandon Name and Identity?

The true Shakespeare : Christopher Marlowe

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Abandoning name and identity,

 as Marlowe has in all likelihood done, and writing under pseudonyms of identifiable persons does not occur as seldom, as is usually assumed, but for very different reasons.... 

...shown here using the example of russian Vladimir Vavilow

  and italian Guilio Caccini. 

Another example (not shown) could have been taken from Fritz Kreisler

 and Gaetano Pugnani.

Marlowe / Vavilow

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(533) Shakefrauds should compete with Oxfrauds

Shakefrauds ! 

An abyss of academic inability  of reasoning in humanities

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Without accepting a historical Marlowe/Shakespeare authorship fraud there will be no way to explain and interprete the weird situation of plays explicitly printed as written by Shakespeare during his lifetime, but not included in the "First Folio! 1623
                                     
                                            What a bizarre and grotesque Situation!!
                           Ultra-orthodox  Stratfordian Shakespeare scolars ( e.g. Oxfrauds) 
                               should start to be more interested in good conspiracy theories!

The London Prodigal (1605)",  "A Yorkshire Tragedy (1608)" and Pericles (1609)"

Stunningly these plays were omitted in the First Folio , and amazingly "Pericles" alone  later was accepted to be included in the Shakespeare  Canon!                         

     For more details click this VIDEO!  

                                    

(532) The "true" Shakespeare alone wrote the "Passionate Pilgrime"! But who was he?

 The "Passionate Pilgrime" has been written by a single author, the true poet and dramatist genius Marlowe alias William Shake-speare,   

alias  Griffin, alias Barnfield,  alias Deloney,  alias Heywood)

                                                 .... as inconceivable it may sound !

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There are serious  reasons to argue that in 1599  the "Passionate Pilgrime" has been written by a single author, the true poet and dramatist genius Christopher Marlowe who signed under one of his various  pseudonyms: W.Shakespeare.

There was no need for Marlowe to reveal the contributions of others of his pennames used previously. Some brief reflections on  those poems of allegedly other  poets (Griffin, Barnfield, Deloney, Heywood)  disclose a common contextual autobiographical background of the poems as well as the reason why “Shakespeare Academe”  for lack of acceptance of a historical authorship problem is not yet ready even to begin  to resolve the excess of Shakespeare inconsistencies.

                                click  V I D E O! 

(531) William Shakspeare (Stratford) equals obscure James Shirley

James Shirley belongs to the late pennames of the true literary english genius .

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Act V (a subplot) within the stage play "The wittie faire one" by James Shirley discloses in a round about way the Shakespeare / Marlowe authorship issue, indicating that Shirley belongs to the later Pennames of the true Genius.

                                                        (for details click video!)

(530) Stratfordians about the Non-Stratfordians: They are just crazy

The Shakespeare-Stratford-Dogma (SSD) is not allowed being questioned or doubted

 and it cannot be changed or discarded without affecting the very system's paradigm.

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...challenging the Dogma is academic death and the most elegant way for a scholar to commit career suicide” !

Almost any scholar would lose his job, his position or reputation in the academic world of "Shakespeare orthodoxy" if he would would engage in the least to the authorship debate and doubt.!
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One wonders how such a infinite unique global confusion could occur ?

There are significant reasons for this confusion, which can only ever be resolved
with the gradual acceptance of the complex Marlowe Shakespeare authorship thesis.

(Marlowes Survival and his multiple Penname-ship)

(529) Were there really 2 high level poets named John Davies ?

What do you think about the probability 

2 high level poets  with the same name (John Davies), in the same year (1602)  with the same literary subjectmatter ( the soul) , in the same city (London) printed these 

2 masterpieces of philosophical literature?

John Davies (of Hereford)

Sir John Davies

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(528) The "false" Shakespeare and the Second Edition (1640) of the Sonnets

the Second Edition (1640) of the Sonnets

          The mirrored editors (Ben Jonson and John Benson)  and figure

Short you-tube Video exposé about the second edition

 of Shakespeares Sonnets (1640) trying to answer  the question 

why Shakspeare (Stratford) was the false 

and Marlowe the true poet genius and dramatist.

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(527)The Shakespeare authorship is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge!

 4 "King Edward" historical plays in London by 4 outstanding dramatists within a few years

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It is neither a possible, nor a plausible, nor a probable or a certain option, that within a few years                                      4 "King Edward" historical plays 

were composed in London in a similar diction by 4 outstanding dramatists 

                                    (Peele, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Heywood) 

                                                                   with no established evidence of a personal connection.

CLICK  VIDEO

Lets end the devastating academic long-term failure by putting the Shakespeare Marlowe authorship thesis to the test.

(526) An open letter to a guest post of "Before Shakespeare"

Hallo Alexander Thom,

I am an old retired Professor for Neuroscience from Munich and wrote a german book (after 10 years of reading and studies) on the Marlowe/Shakespeare Authorship thesis . Unfortunately I couldn’t find an english Publisher, since I was regarded (up to now) as a conspiracy ideologist. At least, I lately fabricated a short english Summary of the book. (Video youtube)

With great interest I read

---->contribution on „banishment as a romance“ <-----Click!)

 on the website „Before Shakespeare“ . I suppose it‘s a base of your upcoming PhD „Bodies of Law: Banishment, Marriage, and Sovereign Power in Shakespeare’s Plays“.

The reason of my letter is a question: What may be the reason, that in your essay on "Banishment in Shakespeares time" you totally neglegt (or deny?) the Marlowe / Shakespeare thesis, even though banishment, exile, disgrace , loss of identity etc. is a crucial element not only in Marlowe / Shakespeare‘s work but also in other poets or playwrights works ( best explainable as contemporary pseudonyms) such as [s.Video] --> Drayton(1), Griffin (2) Ford (3) Shake-speare(4) and many more

Is the Marlowe/Shakespeare authorship thesis (also to the younger genration) a total nonsense?

…so that it is advisable for you, not to answer a mentally confused one (as 99 % of all british intellectuals did.

With regards

Bastian Conrad

Bastian Conrad (Prof.emeritus)

Techn.University Munich

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(525) B.Griffins Fidessa . An artistic autobiographic Sonett sequence be Marlowe

Short Rationale why B.Griffins Sonnet Sequence "Fidessa" 1596 must have been written by Christopher Marlowe 

alias Shake-speare alias Barnfield alias Heywood etc

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Video.  B.Griffin's Fidessa by Marlowe alias Shakespeare - Duration: 10 minutes.

To enlarge the figure,tip on it.

click video!

(524) Drayton, Shake-speare and the like: pseudonyms of the unique poetical genius Marlowe

Some 30 Arguments (a compilation of 6 videos) 

why Michael Drayton belongs - analogous to Shakespeare, Chapman, Davies and others - to the multiple pseudonyms of the true poet genius Christopher Marlowe.

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Be warned: A demanding complex literary-historical authorship affair!

...the Video contribution was consciously decelerated by the Music!