(360) Shakespeare‘s weird outfit and look.

ONCE YOU HAVE RECOGNIZED

The absurdity

of the "Droeshout Engraving", 

 it is no more possible to see it the "old" way.

VIDEO: reflect also the Total Absurdity

                                                   

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The numerous particular features --- (different hair length, a missing colar starched (stiffening?) line, the double chin line, the satorial absurdities [2 left arms, different shapes and sizes of the front panel, the different patterns in the embroidery [stripes], different shoulder wings] , no neck, disproportionate head-body size relation. etc..) --- show beyond doubt, that the engraving was carefully designed to consist of the left half of the front and the left half of the back side of the body and garment..--

No engraver could ever commit such a gross error unless it was expressly required. The remarkable oddities represent a skillfull executed carricature and were evidently intentional, required by the publishers (and/or by the yet living concealed poet himself: Christopher Marlowe)

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The german non-fiction book: "->The i Towards a solution of the century old Authorship Problem"  discusses the problem of the->Multiple Oddities of the Droeshout engraving (p.67-71) of  "William Shakespeare" in the First Folio.  

—> ENGLISH SUMMARY
Early publications of the 20th century proposed, that the publishers of Shakespeare's "First Folio" were indicating that the person ostensibly depicted, Shakspere of Stratford, was  not the author of the plays that follow.-

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"Shakspere" from Stratford 

was not

 "Shake-speare", the  dramatist of  the First Folio Plays.-

But this does not automatically lead to the understanding (s. Shahan's Video of the Shakespeare-Oxford Fellowship) ), that the Publishers (amongst others Edward Blount, William Aspley, William Jaggard) of the Folio (1623) had the intention to conceal the Earl of Oxford, who had died almost 20 years earlier (!! 1604)

(359) The fatal missing link: Shakespeare never ever has written any letter!

Shakspeare (from Stratford) 

never ever has written any letter! 

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This needs an explanation!!



                                                   The English secretary,

                                                           or Methode of writing

                                                            of epistles and letters

                                                               1599

The goal of language is communication. Shakespeare probably possessed the most powerful communicative competence of all time, becoming one of the most influential writer.

The craft of his writing and language is unprecedented. Since at his time there was no telegraph, no radio, no newspaper etc., letters were the outstanding means of communication and a method of gaining feedback, privately and for “official” communication. -

Consider that at Elisabethan times there were extremely popular writing manuals on how to compose letters: e.g. Angel Day’s “The English Secretary” with numerous editions (1586, 1592, 1595, 1599, 1607, 1614, 1621, 1625, and 1635) dedicated – by the way – to Edward de Vere.

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Be aware Angel Day has never been identified beyond his name in print and trade records. - There is no confirmed historical person behind the name in the meaningful biographical sense. He published The English Secretary s. picture above  (from 1586 onward),is said to have been  a hugely popular letter-writing manual.

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For William Shakspere (Stratford) having lived for a quarter of a century in London not a single sign of written communication, (letters, notices, messages, accountings etc). has remained or ever been discovered?

Any written message, given away, is forever out of the control of the sender, the most logical and only plausible conclusion of the missing correspondence is:

Shakspere never ever has written any letter! 

As long as so-called Shakespeare experts (incl.Oxfrauds) and Academia do not provide us a rational explanation for this bizarre and impossible  situation, they cannot expect that the public will ever be willing to close the chapter of Shakspeare’s invisible communicative competence and to end the authorship debate!

Compare Shakspere with his contemporous Tobie Mathew and his impressive correspondence especially with Francis Bacon (written at Shakespeare's time between 1600 and 1630)

Why as early as 1660 an impressive "Collection of letters made by Tobie Mathew" could appear in print, but never ever a single letter of Shakspere?




! You should not use the Argument ("That’s not unusual: there were  of similar contemporary cases (such as Breton, Chapman, Drayton, Heywood, Markham, Mathew etc.)
as long as you are not familiar with  their IDENTITY & vast writings!!

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(358) Shakespeare‘s obvious lack of autobiographical information.

THE     D I S G U I S E    M O T I V

(= Loss of identity) of Shakespeare's plays 

clearly had autobiographical roots!

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K.A:Quarmby

Kevin A. Quarmby , Assistant Professor of English at Oxford College of Emory University, investigates in his book " The Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (Ashgate, 2012) 

the "disguised ruler motif" . 

In single chapters his analysis  includes Shakespeare's “Measure for Measure”, Marston's“The Malcontent”/“The Fawn”, Middleton's “The Phoenix” and Sharpham's “The Fleire”.

Web reviews of Quarmby's book tell us that  (whereas "disguised ruler plays are typically interpreted as synchronic political commentaries about King James") "Quarmby destabilizes some idée fixes of the Shakespeare field – for instance, the idea, often promulgated, that the Friar in "Measure for Measure" is a reflection of James I."

It has long been known that no plot device is more constantly recurrent in Shakespearean drama than is disguise.- Shakespeare injects masquerade into 25 of his comedies, tragedies and chronicle plays.- His intent in bringing a disguised figure onto stage is always to conceal the identity of one ore more characters from other persons in the play.-

To those "Non-Stratfordians" accepting the enlarged authorship Thesis of Marlowe's life catastrophy'

(In brief: after a state-supported "false flag" life rescue operation  feigning his death, May 1593 , Marlowe was permanently forced to change identity and name and write  under many Pseudonyms throughout his longlasting life).

 ......it becomes evident that 

a) not only the  disguise motif itself, but  

b) also the motif of constantly alternating "pseudo-author-names" 

has belonged to the predominant autobiographical literary influences and topics  of an author, who permanently  had lost his identity and name.-

What may Quarmby have led to  his escapist results? Is he aware of the complex 

problems of Marston's/ Webster's, Middleton's and Sharpham's authenticity 

and of the totally  missing "disguise motifs" of  Shakspeare ,

 the Stratford  business man ?

Will anybody make us really believe that the predominant disguise motif (loss of identity) of Shakespeare's plays had no autobiographical roots?

(357) Cognitive Dissonance and the Shakespeare‘s Authorship

 SHAKESPEARE    AUTHORSHIP 

How to diminish  an unpleasant feeling 

i.e.  reduce “cognitive tension” 

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Confronted   with the Shakespeare Authorship (holding contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time) most scholars show little capacity to tolerate doubt or uncertainty. 

A majority of admirers of Shakespeare’s work experience discomfort or a mental tension or stress (cognitive dissonance):

Greatly simplified, this cognitive tension is the result of a mismatch or imbalance (dissonance), between 2 (evolutionary) separate evaluating systems of our central nervous (brain) system, 

                        cooperating and steadily competing with each other:


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Simplified Model of 2 phylogenetically differently 

evolved evaluating brain systems

1.) a phylogenetically much older, more stable or robust, much faster, more certain, decisive, and uncompromising, unspecific, archaic, pure "complementary"(binary), 

emotional/ limbic (sub-)cortical, less rational, evaluating system and

2.) a phylogenetically younger, less stable, slower, but far more sophisticated,
, compromising, specific, complex, less complementary

 rational (neo-)cortical evaluating system.
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Depending upon the amount of functional cortical/subcortical human capacity the most feasible way to diminish the unpleasant feeling and to reduce “cognitive tension” between “the potential of the new and the security of the old“ is to correct or 

reduce the imbalance between these 2 evaluating systems,

i.e. increasing and by intensifying perceptions, ,knowledge, associations and concepts which will inevitably entail your convictions, affects, moods and values of self assurance.-

The most important precondition is a basic fund of knowledge not only of Shakespeare's works but of all related contemporary literary genres/texts (-->List 1) and of all contemporary authors ( -->List 2) which are - contrary to earlier times - fully available Online nowadays.

I suppose there is no  academic Shakespeare-Expert (let alone an Authorship-Expert) who unites a profound knowledge of at least 5-10 percent of this (Need-To-Know) textual  information 

List 1.-

(excerpt of title key words of Contemporary Book Genres)

Click on list1  to enlarge"

List 2

 (excerpt of contemporary author names)

Click on the list 2 , to enlarge!

(356) Shake-speare a penname of the „true or real“ author of "Hamlet".

G E O R G E.  W I T H E R ,  a Pseudonym

Of  TRUE  SHAKESPEARE (=Marlowe)

„Of that my Name (whenever it shall be writ)
Should be obscured with twenty  after it.“

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2 lines from "Withers Motto" (section Nec habeo) 1621

 

 

click -->Engl Summary

 of this  "German" BOOK

George Wither,  in the german nonfiction book "The true Shakespeare: Christopher Marlowe"  is recognized as one out  of the multiple Alias names (similar to "Shake-speare", "John Taylor", "Drayton" and others)  for "undercover" living Christopher Marlowe.-

George Wither has come out and  confessed this clearly in his book "Withers Motto"!:

…..that my Name (when e’re it shall be writ) should be obscur’d with twenty after it. For could I set my mind on vulgar fame; I would not thinke it hard, to make my Name, purchase me as true renown; as to be called, by some old ruin’d town.

Marlowe/alias Shakespeare/Wither was open enough coming out 

A) that his existence was different from that of his own  stage actor "Hamlet" who exclaimed   "To be or not to be" ("to live or to dy "),  he himself as his author had not the power, or grace  to live (to be) or not to live ( not to be) but to exist as another...a small difference and

B) that his name should be obscured with twenty [pseudonyms] after him...

(355) Marlowe must have had many pseudonyms :not only Shake-speare, e.g. John Taylor! / ( The waterpoet). George Wither . --- An absurd idea?

 G E O R GE.  W I T H E R (4)

Whats your explanation? 

 2 authors, George Wither and John Taylor, 

in the same year 1621, with  the same book title cover, with the same but complementary subtitle, care about the same topic ,their name  and reputation.

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            John TAYLOR           George WITHER

TAYLORS Motto

WITHERS Motto

1621, 2 years prior to the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio , two very similar book-titles, bestseller "Wither's Motto" and  "Taylor's Motto" appeared, with 

Two identical but complementary latin subtitles:

George Wither:  Nec habeo, nec Careo, nec Curo      ( "I have not, I want not, I care not") and

John Taylor :      Et habeo, Et Careo, Et Cureo           ("I have, I want, I care)

Both (putative) authors, Wither and  Taylor (the waterpoet)  did not mention the vivid delineations and pure confessions  of his opponent author  with a single word .

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Wither openly confessed :

 (»when this Motto first, I did make,…that it might expresse me as I am«,

»My intent was to draw the true Picture of mine own heart, …who knew me outwardly, have some representation of my inside also...«

 »Heare, what I have not… I have not of my selfe, the powre or grace, 

To be, or not to be; one minute-space.)

                          

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                                                Some additional Excerpts

 »As when I dye, one promist me a Grave«. »A Grave; that quiet closet of Content«. »And I have built my selfe a Monument«), »But (as I live) excepting only this; Which of my wealth the Inventory, is«

 (»I do not for these ayrie Titles care«), (which fooles, and knaves, as well as I may weare) or that my Name (when e're it shall be writ) should be obscur'd with twenty after it.)« 

 »I care not so I still my selfe may be«), what others are, or who takes place of me«

---

 Excerpt of Taylors Motto

Taylor confessed ,

that he is the greatest murder alive
that doth a man  of his good name deprive 

To blast a good mans name with scandals breath,
makes his dishonor long survive his death 

Be fully aware: These statements are only suitable for Marlowe!

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The Praise of Hamp-seed 1620

 excerpt from Taylor's Motto (1621)

Astonishingly John Taylor confessed in his book
"The Praise of Hemp-seed:(first print 1620)

"Such a Divine and Poet  each state admires him,
whom they cannot imitate"

in Paper many poets now  survives
or else their Lines had perished with their lives

...and Shakespeare did in art excell,
...Greene ...Silvester Beaumont, John Harrington forgetfulnesse their works would overrun

 Taylor (Dec.1623) knows about deceased authors (such as Shakespeare [did in art excell], Sylvester, Beaumont, John Harrington) and about living authors ("there are living at this day"..."which do in paper their true worth Display", such as »Davies, Drayton, and the learned Dun, Jonson, and Chapman, Marston, Middleton, Rowlye [Rowley], Fletcher, Wither, Massinger, Heywood and all the rest where e'er they are«):, "...must say their lines, but for the paper sheete..", ...  "had scarcley ground, wheron to set their feete.").


In plain language: almost all of the yet living authors, did not really exist but only could be read on a paper  sheet  (of a book), as pseudonyms.-

Both authors, Wither and Taylor, in the same year 1621, with almost the same title cover, with the same but complementary subtitle,  care about the same topic , their name  and reputation.-

Are we really to believe Shakespeare experts that Georg Wither and John Taylor have nothing to do with each other,  both in 1621  as „complementary entities„ dealing with their losses of  Reputation, Name and Identity?

Why  no  reasonable or plausible  theories  

(such as the Marlowe-Shakespeare theory) 

have ever been developed for these  

astonishing observations?

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(354): One of Marlowe's pseudonyms was "Shake-speare" ! (3) George Wither another, the most significant!

G E O R G E  W I T H E R (3)

the most significant authorship Candidate…

"When I quite am vanish'd out of seeing 

                         "I shall enjoy my "Now-concealed Beeing".

In George Withers "Collections of Emblems" and Poems(1634) " you will not only find Marlowe's self-chosen "complementary dialectic" philosophy of life (latin phrase on his Portrait)

"Quod me nutrit me destruit"(book II/6 )
or
"Dum nutrio consumor" (book I /15 )

but also tightly connected significant contextual information about his fate.-

Emblem-15 / Book-I exhibits an altar on which the burning laurel (of the poets fame) is sacrified. The entire poem is imbued with 'Marlowes complementary-dialectic life Motto. The wisdome of this philosphy corresponds to



Shakespeare's Hamlet Act II, Scene II.

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" as       well as to

Marlowe's Doctor Faustus -

“Hell is just a frame of mind.”
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The Poem offers a further interpretation of this dialectic wisdome: Marlowe: "when I quite am vanish'd out of seeing "I shall enjoy my "Now-concealed Beeing".

George Wither  Embl. Book I / 15

Who else besides Marlowe, who vanished out of seeing, could be meant by this characterization?

Who else besides Marlowe could have written in such an artistic "dialectic complementary" stile?


The german book: "The true Shakespeare: Christopher Marlowe" sees in George Wither one of the many author-pseudonyms of Marlowe whose death was feigned.in 1593- .


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(353) "Shake-speare" is one of Marlowe's multiple pseudonyms! ; George Wither another !

GEORGE WITHER (2)

                                                                    _______________________

A portrait had been discovered in 1952 at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, which is most likely of Christopher Marlowe.-

The age and date of the portrait (as inscribed in the top-left corner) are generally fit to Marlowe, who was born in February 1564, and who attended the College between 1580 to 1587. The latin inscription says "Aged 21 in 1585". The impresa inscribed on the portrait beneath the Dating is:

                     The MOTTO on Marlowe's Portrait 1585

"Qvod me nvtrit me destrvit"

("that which nourishes me, destroys me")

It dates at least back to 1557 and is of French/Italian origin.

The identical (or very similar) Motto (s.also Blog 259) can be found in Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 or Shakespeares Pericles Q1, in which the Prince of Tyre bears the same impresa on his shield for the tournament (s.Faksimiles)


                                                                        -----------------

You also find Marlowe's dialectic philosophy ("CONTRARITIES ") in authors such as:

W.C. »Polimanteia«
»(…) and to nourish that flame which consumed Greece (…)«
»(…) and have made me blow it till I burne to ashes (…)
 

or W.B. :That Which seems best is worst. 1617 [=Booktitle]

or others such as

Barnabe Barnes, Francis Davison, John Davies, Thomas Bastard, Wiliam Basse a.o.

It is difficult to imagine that all [ Marlowe, Shakespeare and so many others ] would have used this specific

"complementary dialectic philosophy of life"

in the same period and to this diversity. One can borrow certain preferred words and texts, but to take over the motto or philosophy of life of another Person is devoid of logic and would debase the work of Shakespeare.

These observations support the

-> Marlowe/Shakespeare authorship thesis:


There was only one towering poetic genius in his time! Christopher Marlowe. He was forced for various reasons to write - already in his "official life time" - under pseudonames , and not only under the name of Shake-speare but under many other pseudonyms, which he changed throughout his life such

                                            as George Wither.-

Thus,  it is by no means coincidental, that George Wither in his "Collection of Emblems" used Marlowes life Motto (s.Faksimiles) .


George Wither's "Collection of Emblems". See roundtext: "Qui me alit me destruit." (Embl. 6/book2)




George Wither's " Collection of Emblems." See roundtext: "Dum nutrio consumor." (Embl. 15/book 1)

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The most plausible explanation is that the author behind Marlowe's portrait, behind Shake-speare's plays & sonnets, behind Wither's emblems and behind the many others was 

always one and the  same.....

                                                              ________________C.Marlowe _________

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(352) "Shake-speare" is Marlowe’s pseudonym! (1) Another significant is George Wither!

G E O R G E   W I T H E R (1)

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The highly cultured author George Wither (1588 ) is identical with a Poet-Genius George Wither (borne 1588?) 

The true Shakespeare: Christopher Marlowe

According to the (german) non-fiction book "The true Shakespeare: Christopher Marlowe" George Wither belongs beyond any doubt to the multiplicity of pennames or pseudonyms of Christopher Marlowe, - similar to the name "Shake-speare"  -

There is a contemporary source  that in 1588 Cambridge University authorities delayed granting Marlowe his Masters degree until the Privy Council assured that his stay to the catholic Seminary at Reims involved  "matters touching the benefit of his contry".

It is highly likely  a) that during his "official" lifetime Marlowe (alias the "true" Shakespeare)  had to publish  "undercover"  and  b) that the author names "->Geffrey Whitney", (1586) or modified "->George Wither"   were some of his pennames.

 Wither puplished a document, entitled "A View of the Marginal Notes of the  Popish Testament..." (s.Faksimile 1588) dealing with a critique of the english translation of the bibles "New Testament" by the fugitive catholics in Reims ("Rhemes")  .-

In  his dedication to the archbishop of Canterbury Wither wrote "...but by what occasion I cannot tell, it [censure, view, examination of the book] hath been hitherto delayed.(...) I tooke it in hand so late,,,,(...) now having the favor of God gone through it...

Strangely, no encyclopedic expertise of the past came to the conclusion that the highly cultured author George Wither  in 1588 is identical with the Poet-Genius George Wither  who published the unique and matchless artistic "Collection of  Emblems? (1634).

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