tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2833359394611156317.post2456443586859765337..comments2024-03-22T23:54:34.302-04:00Comments on Ashes From Burnt Roses: Literature in the News: Christopher Marlowe Officially Credited as Co-Author of Shakespeare’s Three Henry VI PlaysMannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15396201693030286919noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2833359394611156317.post-74877399907222030712016-10-29T20:05:02.937-04:002016-10-29T20:05:02.937-04:00No, no, no. Do not believe that. That is all con...No, no, no. Do not believe that. That is all conspiracy theory nonsense. There really was a William Shakespeare, and he wrote the plays and poems. His contemporary playwright and friend, Ben Jonson, wrote this poem to Shakespeare:<br />http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/benshake.htm<br /><br />The memorable quote in the poem is this:<br />"He was not of an age, but for all time!"<br /><br />He wouldn't have written that if he didn't exist or was a fraud. People realized what a genius Shakespeare was even in his life time.<br /><br />The best book to explore the actual Shakespeare is The Quest for Shakespeare by Joseph Pearce. It's on Amazon. Plus the book shows how Shakespeare was very likely a Roman Catholic. Well worth the read.<br />Mannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15396201693030286919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2833359394611156317.post-61043588118732251962016-10-27T12:42:44.989-04:002016-10-27T12:42:44.989-04:00One of the greatest controversy about Shakespeare ...One of the greatest controversy about Shakespeare is whether he actually wrote the 30 or so plays, sonnets and such like writings or not. The fact that they have been written is not in dispute; but their authorship is. Nems in the frame are Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe or Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.<br /><br />As yotu know, Shakesoeare was an actor who went to London and made a small fortune in the theatre, and also by purchasing properties (theatres amongst others) which made him very rich. He returned to Stratford-upon-Avon and bought a large house and his fame spread.<br /><br />There is a possibility that he was only the financial backing behind all these plays he is supposed to have written. He was a rich man, owned many theatres, and it is possible that he put on plays as a business; very much like a modern day producer puts on plays, or makes films or produces music records and CDs these days. It doesn't follow that today's producers write the plays or sing the songs on record.<br /><br />In time, Shakespeare's fame and plays became synonymous to saying "hoover" when we mean a vacuum cleaner, or "thermos" when we mean a vacuum flask. People went to see "Shakespeare plays" - that is plays produced and financially backed by, but not written, by him.<br /><br />That's what he told me when I last asked him.<br /><br />God bless.Victor S E Moubarakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04280638667651857296noreply@blogger.com