Why Richard B A R N F I E L D
(as SHAKESPEARE)
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From a Marlovian perspective Barnfield’s sudden literary silence mirrors that of several “minor” poets around 1598–1600. His style appears derivative yet authoritative, as if he were: either unusually close to the author behind Shakespeare or a mask / outlet for that author
Several features are noteworthy: Barnfield writes like someone already fully trained, not a beginner, His poetry feels less like youthful experimentation than controlled variation,
He emerges exactly when Marlowe “dies” (1593) and vanishes when Shakespeare’s canon stabilizes
This makes Barnfield a prime candidate in the multi-pseudonym theory of MARLOWE