October 16, 2016

(473) George Wither [apart from Shakespeare]: The single most significant pseudonym of Christopher Marlowe (3)

G E O R GE  W I T H E R (7)

The Shakespeare Authorship Enigma:
"There were famous Authors of whom we see no signe, that ever they lived "

[concealed behind their pennames!]
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George Wither: A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne (1635)
Prolific George Wither, Emblem 24, Book III, writing daily for 6 decades ("no day without a line"--"Nulla dies sine linea")






Excerpt of George Withers Poem -attached to Emblem 24 - Booke III)
"George Wither" (also Geoffrey Withney1585 in the service of William Cecil, 1588, also  writing from Reims (s.Blog 469)  revealed his true nature in "A Collection of Emblemes" (1635) s. also blog 474

 " in sixty, seventy, eightie yeare" wrote an immense amount of literary works ("composing but  each day a line 
... ten hundred thousands lines have arrived  ,[ Authors ](names) with needful Works. -         of whome, we see "no signe that ever they lived "

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Albert Einstein
A propos the  "Shakespeare/Marlowe Authorship" 
Albert Einstein :       
If at first the idea is not absurd then there is no hope for it.” .

  1. The "absurd" idea is:      that the true and only author of "Hamlet", "King Lear" or "Timon of Athens" was the deadly slandered poet-genius Christopher Marlowe, who - in consultation with the crown - was allowed to save his life by feigning his death, abandoning name and identity and writing henceforth under changing author names (incl.William Shake-speare, George Wither*1 and many others )



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*1)Be Aware, that our Poet Genius Marlowe - at his official life time - already traveled incognity under pennames such as  George Wither (Reims 1585) or  Geoffrey Whitney (Leyden 1585/86)




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October 13, 2016

(472) George Wither [apart from Shakespeare] : the single most significant pseudonym of Christopher Marlowe (2)

GEORGE   W I T H E R (6)

Early on George Wither must have belonged   to  the pseudonyms of Christopher Marlowe, 
                  

George Wither: Title Cover of his "Faire Virtue..." (1622)

George Wither , in "A Collection of Emblems" ,1635
George Wither: Rhomboidall Dirges, out of "Faire-Virtue...!(!622)

In 1622 George Wither wrote his Poems "Fair Virtue, The Mistresse of Phil'Arete". Notice that Shakespeare's "First Folio" had not yet appeared, and nobody had ever reported to have seen or met the poet  Shakespeare.

<----In Withers poetical "rhomboidall dirges" s.Faksimile  we learn from the autor

a) in poem 1: that because he played with the burning coals of...flames he deeply sunk , asking himself if he ever will raise again?

b) in poem 2: that he perished in his youth sweet prime. -   "Unmoaned" he must die  and no man will ever know about his "Fatal time"




Blog 469 could show, that encyclopedic information about George Wither  (e.g. born in 1588!?) is              by no means assured knowledge.-

A mighty series of arguments (German)   has been collected that George Wither belonged   to  the pseudonyms of Christopher Marlowe, who had survivied but given up his name and identity.-   (Listen also to the other 4 romboidall dirges .--below!)

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(471) How to explain the gigantic [but lost?] literary output of Thomas Heywood compared to Shakespeare ?

THOMAS  H E Y W O O D

The gigantic [but lost?] literary output of Thomas Heywood compared to  Shakespeare ? 


 Thomas Heywood, of the same age than Shakspere or Marlowe, started his literary career [similarly to Shakspere] late, only a f t e r  the death of  Marlowe (1593) ! Why ?

Title cover of Thomas Heywoods Play 1633
Epistle "To the Reader", ´in Thomas Heywoods Play "The English Traveler"

How can it be that in 1633 Thomas Heywood in his epistle to the Reader of his Play "The English Traveller" told us

a) that that play was one among 220 plays (Tragedies/Comedies) he had written ("beeing  one reserved amongst two hundred and twenty")

b) that he was fully aware of all his publications ("having intelligence therof") even though they appeared "accidentally"  [SOED,"a note or mark that may be retained or omitted  in a coat of arms "1610]

c) that he never had a great ambition that "his playes" to be read in volumes to beare the title "WORKES"  (such as Jonson.) " and

d) that he thought it appropriate that his plays are not anonymous ("thought it not fit that it should passe as filius populi", a bastard without a father) , thus giving each  play a "literary  father,"  appearing under different  pseudonyms (think of e.g. of Beaumont / Fletcher )

The true Shakespeare: Christopher Marlowe (5th Edition 2016)
                                 There are significant reasons to assume that Thomas Heywood belonged to the multiplicity of  pennames of "The true Shakespeare" (C.Marlowe) with  a gigantic literary output, but under many different pennames and  did  write by no means only 2 plays per year in less than 2 decades






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(470) The Marlowe-Shakespeare Conspiracy on Vienna's stage: "The wrong Face"

Gerald Szyszkowitz
The wrong Face
I visited a last perfomance of a theater play on MARLOWE  - Oct. 8th 2016 in Vienna.

In 2015 Former Austrian TV-Producer, Theater Director,  Writer, Painter
Gerald Szyszkowitz wrote a novel "The Wrong Face - or Marlowe is Shakespeare", representing a passionate plea for the Marlowe/Shakespeare Authorship Thesis.-


I also learned, that in 2016 author and artistic director Gerald Szyszkowitz produced a theater Version of his book for the summer Festival at  the Hyunday Castle in Maria Enzersdorf , as a coproduction with  "

The Freie Bühne Wieden" (Vienna) based on his novel (The Wrong Face - or, Marlowe is Shakespeare)“

The play in 3 acts supports  the presumption that William Shakespeare didn't write the plays that are claimed to be his, but that they were penned by Christopher Marlowe, who did not die as claimed in 1593. 

The obscure historical situation certainly offers well suited material for a theatre play. -




The productions  resumed performances at the Freie Bühne Wieden October 4-8,  2016 which enabled me to watch 
         the last performance.
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(469) George Wither [apart from Shake-speare] : the single most significant pseudonym of Christopher Marlowe! (1)

GEORGE   W I T H E R (5)

Christopher Marlowe already at his lifetime  wrote

- for safety reasons -  under pseudonyms  such as George Wither, 

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Did  2 different George Withers (jun/sen.?) in reality exist?

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Epigramm 45 of "Wits Recreations (WR)" is about George Wyther, wo made himself and its  anonymous author "eternall", though it is a shame that he had no name.
George Withers Views (1588)
of the "Popish Testament ",

 from a fugitive resiant at Reims





George Withers (1585)
"An A.B.C. for Laye-mans"












does there exist really a George Wither jn  

Corresponding Dedication to William Cecil 1585













  Shakespeare Experts do not seem  to have identified "that" 
George Wither published literary works  
in 1585 and 1588 (s.Faksimile titles)
 
Epigramm 45 "To Mr. George Wyther" in "Wits recreations (1640)

Previous Blogs 463 / 464 / 465  concluded  that  contextual contents of "Wits Recreations (WR)" leave no doubt, that its anonymous author must have been  "concealed Christopher Marlowe" alias the "True Shakespeare" (Summary). -

<---In Epigram nr.45 [s.Faksimile] the author obscurely reveals his relation to George Wither, adressing Wither (thou, thy) as another of himself (pseudonym). He himself is talking in the "Plural Majestatis" (we, our). He  twice highlights both their vices [s.SOED] as well as Withers impressive  book "Britains Remembrancer" (1628 s.--vol-1 ---  vol-2)

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There can be little doubt, that Christopher Marlowe already at his lifetime (in the fifteen eighties) wrote - for safety reasons -  under pseudonyms  such as George Wither,

 (1585, the Lay-man's letters to William Cecil, 
 1588, Notes from Reims, Fr​ance)

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October 12, 2016

(468) Breton certainly another early penname (pseudonym) of Marlowe such as Shake-speare.

NICHOLAS  B R E T O N 

 "Rules of Conduct" perfectly  fit to Marlowe's fatal and endangered concealed life situation.-

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First Poem title   in Nicholas Bretons
 "Melancholike Humours"

Nicholas Breton an early penname of Marlowe (such as  Shakespeare !)

In 1600 Nicholas Breton published a small booklet "Melancholike Humours(1600)" with a Collection of verses with 30 poems of different styles .  -  Poem Nr. 1 [entitled "See and say nothing"] contains 9 verses of 4 lines [s.Faksimile 1-9 above].

Immediately you will notice that all 9 poems represent an

inner request to the author to be cautious and not to reveal himself:

1.    fortune affordes to do nothing, to keep quiet...
2. beware of the fate of Icarus ...
3. be silent, patient, deface yourself...
4. do not exhibit (show) yourself...
5. trust nobody...
6. keepe your secresies unseen...
7. be alert and do not languish overlong...
8. conceal and do not reveal your passion...
9. be secret with your thoughts...
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These "rules of Conduct" 
precisely fit to the life situation of the "true" Shakespeare: Christopher Marlowe.-

Subchapter (page 548-564 of Chapter 11 - German!) elaborates indications why Nicholas Breton (sometimes "Briton") has been a pseudonym of surviving Marlowe [ alias Shakespeare ]. -

 (Bretons   s.Vol.1 and Vol.2 of his workes)

Nicholas Breton an early penname of the "true"    Shakespeare !



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October 05, 2016

(467) Why Ben Jonson wrote an extravagant eulogy on Nicholas Breton in 1600 but none to Shakespeare in his lifetime?

 BEN  J O NS O N 

wrote an extravagant Eulogy on Nicholas  B r e t o n  in 1600

 but none to Shakespeare in his lifetime? 

Nicholas B r e t o n   another Penname of the true "Shakespeare" .

Nicholas Breton:
 "Melancholicke Humours" (1600)

Ben Jonsons Eulogy on Nicholas
Breton in Bretons
"Melancholicke Humours" (1600)    
 
Faksimile...from "Dedication to the Reader".- N.Breton: Melancholicke Humours 1600
(Much ado about nothing!)








  



2 Reflections

1.) What may have been the reason that the star witness Ben Jonson in 1600 wrote a lavish praise  to Nicholas Breton, in his booke   "Melancholicke Humours" but never wrote an eulogy to William Shakespeare during his lifetime, ( only seven years after Shakspere's (Stratford) death 1623 in the First Folio)

2.) It is by no means  accidental in 1600, that Breton wrote a dedication to his Readers writing: " with:
...Much Ado about nothing...he hath made a piece of worke [s.Faksimile above] and that a Play ("Piece of worke") under that Name appeared in the same year 1600 under  the authorname of William Shakespeare? (s.Faksimile above)

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(466) How to tackle the Shakespeare Authorship Conroversy)

Lesser known CONTEMPORARIES

Thomas Bastard, Nicholas Breton, Thomas Freeman, William Basse, 
Randle Cotgrave, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Beard, George Wither , John Marston

How to tackle the

Shakespeare Authorship Controversy?

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Unique significances and texts of "lesser known" authors between 1593 and 1655 (see examples of faksimile title pages of a few of those "authors") can be identified as the second life of "Marlowe" under feigned identities, names and initials [incl.Shake-speare].

I suppose, the majority of readers will consider this view as ridiculous or absurd, but hardly anyone has ever read and  examined these texts in detail ( e.g. EEBO,  Early  English Books Online) and their backgrounds....

      There is an absolute  need of a reversal 
of the Shakespeare Authorship approach!

The logic of the approach must be reversed today since the dogma of MARLOWE's early death

("Because Marlowe's death is acknowledged in 1593, 
accordingly 1000 arguments must be untrue or incorrect!"), 

needs to be reversed today in a scientific contradiction-free paradigm

("Since 1000 arguments for Marlowe/contra Shakspere of Stratford 

exist, the singular "argument of Marlowe's death has to be false.")

    
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The massive historical conspiracy  (s.Video! below) with the tragic fate of Christopher Marlowe  (he was forced to fake his death,  giving up his identity and name and writing under a multiplicity of pennames / pseudonames [incl.Shakespeare]) was in principle fabricated, to remain undetected.



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(465) The Shakespeare Authorship plot disclosed by its ‘“concealed" author!

W I T T 's   R E C R EA T I O N S (6)

The Non-acceptance of the 

"Marlowe-Shakespeare Conspiracy" 

led to a fatal interpretation failure of literary sources in the aftermath of "William of Stratford".-


Epigram 8 from 
        "Witts Recreations" (1640) of an unidentified author









       
  SOF    "WOT"
Engl.Dictionaire

Inner section of title (1640)
Epigram 8 from "Wits Recreations" (1640) of an anonymous author [...the concealed "true Poet-Genius" using multiple pennames incl. Shake-speare] contains all the ingredients to characterize "William of Stratford "
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Epigram  (8) on an Upstart [crow]" refers to  Greenes "Groatsworth of  witte"(1592) somebody being characterized  as a "...Factotum in his own conceit the only Shake-Scene in a countrie". 

In his "Will" (1616) the Stratford man signed as William Shakspeare, Gent[leman]. The author refers to an old saying: "Clothes makes the man": Shakspere enhanced his social status (his pedigree) , he knows [wot, 1. SOED.s.fig. ] how to apply for a coat of arms [2.]. - In a wordplay,  the author seems to reveal the situation by asking why he shakes hands [3.] with a rampant louse [Shakspere] he should chase off .


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I suppose it will be difficult to convince an educated reader
 that Epigram 8  has nothing  to do with the Stratford-man
 and the  historical Shakespeare Authorship Issue.!











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