(347) Claire Asquith: her incomplete, partly false insights into Shakespeare due to a total neglect of the authorship problem ..

Deformed insights into Shakespeare due to a neglect of an authorship problem ?

In 2006 Claire Asquith  (an orthodox Stratfordian and Catholic) published  a remarkable  [highly recommendable] book: “Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare. Her reasonable assumption is that there are  subtexts (underlined stories) within Shakespeare's play dealing with religious conflicts of its time.

She found  and analyzed clues ("hidden meanings" or code words and phrases) clearly enriching our understanding in Shakespeare’s works and life.- Strangely and unfortunately   however, she poses the critical syllogism for a true analysis of the work of William Shakespeare without giving a single critical thought on the issue of whether Shakespeare was the Stratford man. In stucking  Exclusively on one subject, i.e. reinterpreting literally everything as being explained in the  light her „revisionist history“ thesis, she goes astray.

  An example :

She expresses (see Video-speech -at minute 50:00) that one should know that Shakespeare had certain insistent preoccupations [...parallels of  a deeper "second" meaning compared  to a superficial "first"  one) for topics like
     
   Exile
      Sympathy with Failure
              Oath Taking
                     The Murder of Innocence
                             The unquiet Conscience
                                      Disguise 
                                              Divided Loyalty

  

She concludes that „these parallels“  are all precisely the concerns of the English audience of the  time. (...really true?) But Shakespeare biographers like Peter Ackroyd, deprived of Asquith's background, had to look into Shakspere's own life  and came to similar  conclusions but   seeing them unfounded  biographical.-  (Video at time 50:00 min). Ackroyd didn’t look at Asquith „revisionist history“  which  [Asquith states...] "mysteriouly stays in the history department and not in the English one."-

Consider that both, othodox historian Claire Asquith as well as orthodox  Peter Ackroyd, most likely are wrong  .- These "insistent [conceptual] preoccupations" of  Shakespeare  clearly represent  highly specific  (auto)biographical aspects of the concealed Author [Marlowe], the true Poet Genius[ ...not to be confused with the Stratford Business man]  with  a multiplicity of Initials,  Alias- or Pseudo-names  and identities  - (such as George Chapman, Henry Petowe, s.Blog 332, John Davies etc...) . He lived....
   ...in a inner and outer Exile, [banishment]
                in sympathy with his Failure (his life catastrophy) ,
                         could not accept  to take the Oath of Supremacy, [of James I]
                                    was  Innocently  "Murdered", [unsubstantial death]
                                          who had to Disguise with other identities and names,

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