Shakespeare Was The Biggest Thief In History!

The quality of verse is a valid issue in this debate, and I thank you for this point.

While I do not disput the fact that Philip Sidney's contrIbution to the naturalising of the classical metre in English verse is well known, (he was a member of the Areopegus, a club, which included Spenser, Fulke Greville, Dyer and others). Sadly, he died on the 22nd of September, 1586, (he recieved a fatal wound in the thigh). As he lay dying it is documented: he passed a cup of water to another injured comrade saying, 'thy necessity is greater than mine'. [Ref: The Oxford Companion of English Literature]. Due to the fact that Shakespeare's emergence as a major entity, (Writer, Venus and Adonis was published in 1593, the precise year of the British Spy, Marlowe's death), then it seems highly unlikely that the slipper would fit Sidney. Please excuse my pun.

Malowe was a master of blank bombastic verse, his verse finger print is evident throughout Shakespeare's reputed work, and to dispute the fact that Marlowe's verse is not on parr with Shakespeare's is illogical. It's like saying Einstein's theory of relativity is understandable by all at first glance, when in fact it was only understood by twelve adepts after it was first brought out. May I suggest you read the full works of Marlowe, and the Full works of Shakespeare, make a comparison, and get back to me with a new valuation. That's if you have not already read them and are trying to be facetiously witty? Marlowe's situation could be compared to Ovid's, (i.e. a British spy who changed his identity, and built for himself a monumental obelisk).

joe9

03 Jul 2008 08:17

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The quality of verse is a valid issue in this debate, and I thank you for this point.

While I do not disput the fact that Philip Sidney's contrIbution to the naturalising of the classical metre in English verse is well known, (he was a member of the Areopegus, a club, which included Spenser, Fulke Greville, Dyer and others). Sadly, he died on the 22nd of September, 1586, (he recieved a fatal wound in the thigh). As he lay dying it is documented: he passed a cup of water to another injured comrade saying, 'thy necessity is greater than mine'. [Ref: The Oxford Companion of English Literature]. Due to the fact that Shakespeare's emergence as a major entity, (Writer, Venus and Adonis was published in 1593, the precise year of the British Spy, Marlowe's death), then it seems highly unlikely that the slipper would fit Sidney. Please excuse my pun.

Malowe was a master of blank bombastic verse, his verse finger print is evident throughout Shakespeare's reputed work, and to dispute the fact that Marlowe's verse is not on parr with Shakespeare's is illogical. It's like saying Einstein's theory of relativity is understandable by all at first glance, when in fact it was only understood by twelve adepts after it was first brought out. May I suggest you read the full works of Marlowe, and the Full works of Shakespeare, make a comparison, and get back to me with a new valuation. That's if you have not already read them and are trying to be facetiously witty? Marlowe's situation could be compared to Ovid's, (i.e. a British spy who changed his identity, and built for himself a monumental obelisk).

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The quality of verse is a valid issue in this debate, and I thank you for this point.

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Literary finger-printing of both works have already been done. The results showed Marlowe's finger prints were all over Shakespeare's work. Are you going to knock the experts, too? However, if you want to argue let's start with the History Plays! Marlowe was taught from a very early how to translate the classic latin and Greek plays, i.e. inflect words from a very early age, while he was at at King's School, Canterbury. In fact he was that brilliant, he won a scholarship to Corpus Christi College Cambridge, orchestrated by the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Mathew Parker. There he began writing, and logging 'The History Plays'. In those days much of History was logged in Poetry, as you will discover if you familarise yourself with the Attic Poets. However, the last of these plays to be written, Henry VIII, was completed with the assistance of John Fletcher who was also educated at Benet College, which is now called Corpus Christi. Why would a very learned scholar such as Fletcher want to work on the finest of the history plays with an illiterate glover's son, called Shakespeare? You have not offered proof of his education! Unless you agree Shakespeare stole the work! Therefore, Shakespeare was a Thief? Narrow minded people look through a keyhole with both eyes instead of opening the door, and viewing the whole debate. In my opinion there is a vast gulf in the knowledge of what you know, and what you think you know!

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