19 Jan 2018

(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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