(517) Michael Drayton: A significant Pen-name of the true Shakespeare! (Arguments part 1 / of 6)

MICHAEL  D R A Y T O N  (5)

Early on, the poet Michael Drayton, has  been considered  

a pioneer of the  sonneteering  obsession in Elisabethan England, with significant influences  on Shake-speare’s(!) Sonnets.

This YouTube contribution argues  (first 5 Arguments - part 1/of 6)

why Michael Drayton must belong  to the early "poetical pseudonyms" of the "true" Shakespeare (alias Marlowe).

Argument 1     The missing Overlap
Argument 2     The Authors Sacrifice
Argument 3     His first Death
Argument 4     Marlowes GAVESTON 

Argument 5       Sweet Shakespeare/ Eloquent                                                                                          Gaveston

Venus & Lucrece Video

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(516) Kastans interests in the grotesque facts about Shakespeare's will...

David Scott K A S T A N ,   Professor of English at Yale University, one of the General Editors of the Arden Shakespeare,   in a recent refreshing lecture   reflected on the absurdities of Shaksperes Will! ____________ From  what age onwards,  scientist are no longer interested in searching for better or more plausible own solutions to grotesque, non comprehensible  (i.e. unexplained) facts ? It does not need any age, it requires only  an inner arch-conservative (Stratfordian) attitude!-

(515) Why renowned contemprary Poets started their literary career only after Marlowe’s presumed death?

William Shakspeare, George Chapman, Michael Drayton, Thomas Heywood, Gervase Markham, Richard Barnfield and the "strange double" of  John Davies  

started their literary career only 

after Londons greatest poet Genius and dramatist Marlowe 

had unexpectedly disappeared in 1593?

                   Do You  have any plausible explanation?

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Be aware that you cannot  expect a reasonable answer
 from the "Stratfordian" Shakespeare Academe.

If you do not dare to  run the risk of beeing branded as a conspiracy theorist!

think about Marlowe!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7VeQ7OER14&t=1s

(514) Christopher Marlowe's literary restart under pennames such as Shakespeare...

 Shakspeare (Stratford) had N O  plausible motives to start his literary career with  "Venus and Adonis"(1593) and "Lucrece" (1594)

 

The Video contribution (below)  highlights some  arguments why the first two alleged printed literary works of William Shakspeare (Stratford)

"Venus & Adonis" (op.1 - 1593)  and "Lucrece" (op.2 - 1594)

 must have been written by Christopher Marlowe.

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Conclusive Arguments of the Video:

There is no plausible motive for Shakspere (Stratford), to announce the beginning of his new literary career (op.1) "Venus&Adonis" with the latin Title lines of´ Ovid's Elegy 15, dealing with the last things, the death, and the immortality of the  deceased Poet. -

 It fits, however,  perfectly, with Christopher Marlowes literary restart,  after his enforced  disappearance in 1593.

Similar in "Lucrece", there is no identifiable motive for Shakspere (Stratford), to start  his literary career with the parable of .

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V I D E O   (30 min)

Marlowe's literary RESTART in 1593

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(513) Unnoticed handwriting / signature of Christopher Marlowe, 18 days prior to his alleged murder?

 Unnoticed Handwriting of Marlowe (alias Shakespeare)

In the Collection items of the British Library  you may read  some interesting  handwritten material related to the well known accusations  against Christopher Marlowe by Richard Baines and others.                                                            (The Harley Manuscript 6484)

        12  MAY 1593  Marlowes [= TRUE Shakespeare's]  

Handwritings & Signature

Black ink:    vile hereticall conceit

                      denying the deity of Jesus

                      Christ opher ........     found 

                      amongst the papers of Thos.

                      Kydd prisoner .- 

Brown ink:    he affirmeth that he

                      had from Marlowe

On a paper sheet between  two pages numbered by pencil 189/190, you  detect a short handwritten  "2-part note" 

dated 12 May 1593

                                              [ 18 days prior to Marlowe’s alleged murther!!]

The first part of this note (Black ink) dealing  with the contents of Thomas Kyds heretical conceits………….
The second part (Brown ink, added later ?)  deals with  the possible origin of the conceits by Marlowe, the total notes

ressembling  Marlowes handwriting  of his single existing signature.

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(512) Faustus and Hamlet reflecting a single author: Marlowe alias Shakespeare

 Faustus and Hamlet reflecting a single author: 

No-one can seriously assume, that the Plays of Prince Hamlet and Dr. Faustus are pure literary fiction: 

They contain significant autobiographical connections 

to the "true" Shakespeare [alias Marlowe] 

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"Doktor Faustus" (The play, by C.Marlowe ) ....was performed in London prior to 1593 and staged successfully 25 times between  1594 and  1597. A modified textual revival after 1602 was printed for the first time in 1604.

"Hamlet"(The play, by W.Shakespeare) . There are no references to early performances of Hamlet in London. Surviving texts suggest that the author added passages, after the play had been in performance for a  while, prior to 1600.  It was first printed  in 1603 (Q1) and a second time in 1604 (Q2) after a considerable  revision of the text.

The conclusion of the Video : +

                       Marlowe in 1616 "officially" dead for almost 25 years, was alive!
There are no reason or motives why the B-Text (Faustus) was kept under lock for a quarter of a century and  who else but the author himself  could have added such late significant "biographical" information in view of the proximate death (1616) of his "literary dummy" "Shakspeare" from Stratford.

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                                      C L I C K    V I D E O !

Denying the [virtually unimaginable] possibility of TRUE Shakespeare having been a [Pen] Name of Marlowe as taken (borrowed)  from a "real" provincial Stratford frontman 

will prevent a plausible solution to the century old unspeakable 

Shakespeare Authorship Controversy. 


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(511) The Shakespeare authorship controversy: a completely frozen academic Professor Jonathan Bate

Jonathan  B A T E

Prof. Bate fulfills all the criteria—and deploys all the tricks — (click Video1)

of an orthodox academic Stratfordian grandmaster (or, alternatively, a horrendous ham-actor) in his attempt to discredit the very real and serious Shakespeare authorship problem.

 He deals with  authorship Key Questions (click Video2  50 min)  

as if they were non-existent! A paid stirrup holder of the SBT?

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Jennifer Reid (introducing Prof. Jonathan Bate at the beginning of the -Video by saying...)

Quote: "I am here today with Jonathan to talk about the authorship question. So we'd like to adress the question about the authorship in Person and 

                 put it to bed once and for all "

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Jonathan Bate concluded the Q&A game  by saying:

Quote: "so in a way the authorship controversy emerged out of a kind of disappointment that the hard evidence of the documents didn't quite have the colour and the glamour to go with the idea that Shakespeare as the quintessential Genius

I think by the later 20th century the phenomenon, the controversy was dying away..- 

But then of course, with the advent of the Internet, it came back in a big way, because marvellous thing that the Internet is, the problem is, that there isn't  a sort of a system of independent verification where you can discover....

 ....which websites are actually based on evidence and which are based on conspiracy theory. 

So I am afraid it's not going to go away. But from our point of view,  from the point we feel on the basis of the evidence we have laid out, other evidence thats available in a number of books [that we'll be listing on the Course site] ...
                                 ...  the matter is settled.-

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Top-10 Dishonest Tricks: 

to discredit the Shakespeare authorship issue

 1 - Spelling,

 2 - Number of Candidates,

 3 - Circular reasoning,

 4 - Common-sense

  5 - Conspiracies, 

  6 - Plausibilities,

  7 - Inequation, 

  8 - Missing-second-step, 

  9 - Non-Stratfordian crackpots, 

 10 - Religion

(510) American theologian Peter Leithart and his outdated (?) knowledge on Shakespeare's authorship!

Peter L E I T H A R T 

doesn‘t reveal his own opinion! 

What a shame! (...most plausibly a mainstream orthodox opinion....)

In 21.03.2017  Wesley Callihan discussed with  Peter Leithart the question: Did Shakespeare actually write the great Shakespeare plays?

Does Peter J. Leithart (born 1959)—an American author, minister, theologian, and president of   Theopolis Institute for Biblical, Liturgical, & Cultural Studies in Birmingham, Alabama—have a substantiated position of his own on the Shakespeare authorship question?

VIDEO 

Is it significant that he doesn't mention Marlowe once?--------------------------------------

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(509) The Shakespeare authorship debate is not over! Rick Wagners second Episode

   Baconian Rick W A G N E Rs second Episode.....

                               ...arguing  strongly against William of Stratford.- 

                         How strong will Rick Wagner be able to argue for Francis Bacon 

                                                 in the 3rd or 4th Episode (announced long ago, )

                                                                     

  ..is the debate only just beginning ?
why the 3rd and 4th debate 
(the critical point)
aren't arriving?

Baconian Rick Wagner's FIRST  Episode                                                                   ....                                            ---------------------------------------------              . c     Baconian Rick Wagner's SECOND  Episode......        arguing strongly against William of Stratford.-

        How strong will RICK be able to argue for Francis Bacon 

i        in  the (long ago announced) 3rd or 4th Episode?

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(508) Why in 1612 the author W.S. was not William Shakespeare?

An ALLEGORIC

 F U N E R A L L   E L E G Y

on the 'TRUE/REAL' SHAKESPEARE himself

(alias Marlowe)

As long as Stratfordians are not ready 

to accept the Marlowe / Shakespeare authorship issue 

(with the assumption that Marlowe survived and wrote under multiple Pseudonyms such as as "Shakespeare" or "Ford" )

 No progress can be expected.

Short exposé of W.S.' Funerall Elegy

 1612

VIDEO 1

VIDEO  2

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AI - DIALOG on the Video's  above (by Google NotbookLM)

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(507) Shakespeare's Measure for Measure: Ros Barbers lost interest in Marlowe?

  Intrinsic Contextual Evidences 

 of  Autobiographical Aspects

  of Marlowes feigned death.

At the 2014  Shakespeare Authorship Trust (SAT) conference Ros Barber gave a lecture on the background sources Shakespeare probably  used when writing  

 "Measure for Measure!, (MfM) 

based on  arguments and counterarguments  of Georges Lampin and H.N. Gibson.

Astounding informations (similarities of names and data ) support the idea that the true Shakespeare knew about events 1582 in Paris  (The Claude Tonart Case) but under no circumstances William of Stratford.-

It is a pity and astonishing, that (former?) Marlowian Ros Barber seems more interested in some literary sources of the play than in the most impressive intrinsic contextual evidences (concerning MfM) of  autobiographical aspects of Marlowes feigned death.

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(506) Shakespeare crackpot: How Keir Cutler came to learn of Mark Twains book:"Is Shakespeare dead?"

K E I R   C U T L E R (3)

 stages Mark Twains book:

(s. V I D E O   below)

"Is Shakespeare dead?" .

Keir Cutler, a Canadian  actor, writer, director and scholar is taking a look back at his long period of being a believer in the "crackpot" conspiracy theory

 (i.e. Shakspeare  Stratford  did not write the Plays of Shakespeare).

Unfortunately (and unexcusably?) Cutler  does 
not even try to take a firm opinion about the "true" Shakespeare

and rejects the Marlowe/Shakespeare Idea.
What a pity!

V I D E O  1

V I D E O  2

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(505) The $64 question: How could Francis Meres know 14 years in advance about Draytons 'Poly-Olbion'?

MICHAEL D R A Y T O N   (4 )

As Shakespeare belongs to

 the multiple  pennames of  Marlowe!!

      Unbelievable, ridiculous ! -
 ....... but the most plausible solution !

   Francis  Meres "Palladis Tamia" (1598)       Michael Draytons "Poly-Olbion" (1612)

Excerpt in F.Meres "Palladis Tamia"

Francis Meres in Palladis Tamia, in 1598 gave details (Geographical and Hydrographicall of all the forests, woods, mountaines, fountaines, rivers, lakes flouds, bathes and springs that be in England)  of an enlish Poem in Verse called Polu-olbion by     Drayton.

How can it be that Meres  knew 14 years in Advance (1598) about details of the

 Poly-Olbion-Project of Michael Drayton? 

 Poly-Olbion appeared for the first time in 1612.

Michael Drayton belongs to the many  pennames of Marlowe alias the true Shakespeare!
                                                       For a detailed understanding,  see Video below170 mn).-

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(504) Does John Lyly (similarly to Marlowe) belong to the (pseudo)Predecessors of Shakespeare

J O H N   L Y L Y 

"There is a closer, fuller, more vital and more detailed connexion between the work of Lyly and Shakespeare than has hitherto been shown" (RW Bond)

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Similar to Shakspere (Stratford) it is by no means certain that a John Lyly is identical with  the author (John Lylie) of Campaspe, Sapho,  Endymion, Midas Galathea "Woman in the moon , (written in  the 15eighties, a period, when Marlowe/ Shakespeare  were  grown-up, but literary silent....)

Richard W. Bond- (1902) "called attention not only to some general points of practice, wherin Lyly set the example to Shakespeare, but also to great many Shakespeare parallels of phrase or idea"  ...He left" no doubt that the great majority of such  are cases of imitation, adaptation, or unconscious reminiscence by Shakespeare," which were not of "mere coincidence".-

Euphism (expression invented  by Harvey, 1589), defines a literary phenomenon  or  style of very peculiar character which had a great influence on the literature and the conversation language of the Elizabethan period in the 1580s..

The means used by Euphism  basically are to increase the emphasis. At first among them is the use  of Antithesis  (alternate hypothesis, dialectics, contraries, opposite)

K.Kneile concluded in his Dissertation 1914 on John Lyly that he  perfected the distinctive rhetorical devices on which the style was based.  
<----His “Euphues, the anatomy of wyt"” you may name  a constant great forth ongoing Antithesis. (s.Book title left)

It includes all forms, from the simplest to the most complicated. One, and more often two, three, or more words in the same sentences are parallel in position and grammatical function .

It can (and must be) stated, that Marlowe was the greatest master of the antithesis !

 He should  have had something to do with this author and book….

                                                

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(503) The grim logic of Oxfordian Richard Malim redating the Shakespeare Plays prior to 1589.

P U T T E N H A M: a Dead End 

 "The English Arte of Poesie" demands a Genius”

 ...and   was written by S h a k e s p e a r e, 

[ if Shakespeare was Marlowe]”

The same printer Richard Field

used this  emblem a few years later for Shakespeares op.1 

(Venus and Adonis 1593) and op.2 (Lucrece 1594)

  Oxfordian Richard Malim wrote in  Brief Chronicles VII (2016) an article „Oxford and The  Arte of        English Poesie“. One can agree that the anonymous  author of the „The Arte of  English Poesie" [               s.Faksimile, 1589]  cannot have been a supposed certain as George Puttenham! 

(s. Blogs - 254 - /  - 333 -). 

Richard Malim

Malim points to interesting parallels of similar wordings  and idioms between „The Arte“ and  „Shakespeare‘s work“, which  by no means can have occured  purely accidental. -
 

But how to explain the contextual connections between both ?

Malims bizarre conclusion is that the dating of Shakespeare’s works must have been prior to 1589, because Puttenham already quoted Shakespeare (1589) , and that this rules the Stratfordman out , as the author of the plays.

Malims final conclusion:  „These examples [of wordings] are a small fraction of those available whereby Puttenham’s quotations can be seen to be taken from works (…) written and in circulation before Puttenham’s publication date of 1589. 

Puttenham therefore provides vital pieces of evidence for the dating of works, and these rule out William Shakspere of Stratford-Upon-Avon as the author.“ [thus .... are in favor of the Earl of Oxford?]

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Should'nt Malim last sentence be: "The parallels of some wordings and idioms  in the "Arte" 1589 compared to Shakespeare's  later works do manifest the  early genuine inner richness  of the "conceptual literary" brain  of the "true" poet Genius Shakespeare", whoever he was.“

Is it conceivable that at the literary climax of  Shakespeare / Marlowe [see--> Marlowe/ alias Shakespeare Thesis] both in his 25th year of life (1589), an unknown author Puttenham wrote nothing else [-->one exception] than this high profile essay  : "The Arte of English Poesie?" 

If the "The Arte", is exhibiting such powerful parallels with the language displayed in Shakespeare's plays, is'nt it much more likely, that its anonymous author must be identified as the greatest english poet Genius? 

 Is there any reason that speaks against it?

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