Shakespeare: The Christopher Marlowe Theory

[ChaosButterfly8]

Who done it?

The Ghost Writer! ☠

[rockhammer85]

thallassocracy: "...but he (Marlowe) could never have written Twelfth Night."

I wouldn't be so sure about that...

"I say there is no darkness but ignorance." Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601)

"I ... hold there is no sin but ignorance." Marlowe, The Jew of Malta (c. 1589)

[rockhammer85]

Neither is it right for Marlowe to be deemed a lesser talent than Shakespeare. He only got to live to 29 (or did he?), whereas Shakespeare had many later years to mature into the writer of Lear, etc. In fact, Marlowe stood as the greater of the two poets at the time of his death. He'd already written many classics works before Shakespeare had even managed one.

[rockhammer85]

I don't know who wrote the plays, but I can't understand those posters who say there isn't any stylistic similarity between Marlowe and Shakespeare. Hundreds of near-verbatim phrases appear in both men's works.

[octapusdisco]

Uhh, Marlowe was known for being eccentric and quite arrogant, why on earth would he abdicate authorship (and in turn fame) by going under a pseudonym known as 'William Shakespeare'??? The theory that Marlowe=Shakespeare is retarded. Stop it, now.

[Vinsori36]

@octapusdisco perhaps to avoid possibly being hanged, drawn and quartered for high treason?

[AngeloNiklis]

@octapusdisco

Hey, I'm arrogant and I wouldn't want to be famous. Well it might be a laugh but no. I think you answered your own question - Marlowe was eccentric...

[GhostofCliffGullett]

It was Bacon.

[Almuric7]

To the Shakespeare supporters: it's easy to say Marlowe's plays (regarded as the greatest of the time) differ from the style later adopted, it's harder to say where Shakespeare was before Marlowe died. Let's forget all about Marlowe, where was Shakespeare before? Who was he? How did he get his education (no records of even a grammar school) Forget all the replacements, why do we know less of William Shakespeare that almost any marginally known person of his time?

[bryngOneOn]

is funny. saying it was marlowe who wrote all of the shakespeare plays, as that makes it not a conspiracy theory at all, all it does is say the author used a pseudymn, which many writewrs do. and i think what the theorist;s really want is for the author due to their own writing abilities, well lack of, is for the plays to have been written by many, but even if was marlowe, then it's just one, single person that wrote it all, still a genius, i dont know if i'm makin myself clear.

[joshconnelly123]

why is embedding disabled?

[tvdd1973]

There isn't a single theory regarding the 'real' authorship of Shakespeare's work that stands up to any scrutiny and the Marlowe theory is the weakest of them all. Marlowe was a brilliant writer but his style and tone were massively different from Shakespeare's. Besides, despite some half-baked conspiracy theories, the evidence proves Marlowe was DEAD by June 1593. Even if he WASN'T the idea that Shakespeare fronted for him is ludicrous; it's completely impractical, as much as anything else.

[Gaul1748]

My senior year in high school I defended the Marlowe-Shakespeare theory, and lost an A grade (for a B) because I offended my teacher. I now have my doubts, but I still am fascinated by Marlowe and always will be.

[YNWALiverpool1892]

@Gaul1748 Marlowe is the greatest of all writers. Shakespeare was a fraud. I would have given your teacher a nice and sincere fuck you at the end of the year and nicely walked out of hi class.

[DreadfulSolemnity]

The Portrait of William Shakespeare is merely a Portraiture of an aging Christopher Marlowe.

[DreadfulSolemnity]

Poetic Genius!

[poetandlover]

Marlowe was a greater writer and poet than Shakespeare, he could kill the muse with his mighty blank verse. None has come anywhere close since. Nor will anyone ever attain his height again.

[DreadfulSolemnity]

Marlowe Is Shakespeare.

He is the "Ghost of Marlowe," a Posthumous Pseudonym of the exiled, and returned Marlowe. The birth date of Marlowe is uncertain but he was baptised on February 26, 1564, the same exact year as the supposed "Shakespeare." (1564-1616. What a coincidence! The name "Shakespeare" is a Play on Words which means to Shake a Speare (Wand). "Shakespeare" is the Magician who brough the modern English language, collaborating with other playwrights and authors.

[MrBlackwit]

Yeah, had this been on the History Channel, the Knights Templar would've written Hamlet. I hate conspiracy theories.. there's a marked difference in the texts that can't be ingored. The end.

[thallassocracy]

Marlowe was certainly clever enough to fake his own death - but there are no jokes in any of Marlowe's plays. Shakespeare's plays are full of jokes. Marlowe was one of the ten greatest playwrights of all time - but he could never have written Twelfth Night. Shakespeare could never have written Edward II either.

[killuminati43]

When I was younger I was facinated with Christopher Marlowe and even more facinated with the idea of Christopher Marlowe faking his death and writing under the name Shakespeare. But now, I know better, their styles were very different.

[levanyzzuf]

"Christopher Marlowe, a peer of Shakespeare who some believe might be the true writer behind the bard's work"

No historian with any credibility will even suggest this. Their writing is absolutely NOTHING alike, so dissimilar in both rhythm and use of language that one can hardly believe their works were written in the same era.

[metyuewb]

If Marlowe wrote Shakespeare - who wrote Marlowe?! - Woody Allen.

No. Actually, Woody Allen couldn't have come up with that all by himself. Tolstoy must have helped him.

[metyuewb]

If Marlowe wrote Shakespeare - who wrote Marlowe?! - Woody Allen.

No. Actually, Woody Allen couldn't have come up with that all by himself. Tolstoy must have helped him.

[metyuewb]

If Marlowe wrote Shakespeare - who wrote Marlowe?! - Woody Allen.

No. Actually, Woody Allen couldn't have come up with that all by himself. Tolstoy must have helped him.

[teainthesahara]

No credible evidence at all that anyone other thans Shakespeare was Shakespeare. All contemporary documents, without exception, point to him at the author of the plays. Marlow died before Shakespeare's greatest plays were written after Marlowe's death. The idea that he pretended to be dead, hiding off somewhere, is absurd. Also his usage of words has been analysed and was different from that of Shakespeare.

[britmanuk]

and some of the most beautiful art I have ever seen is on

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- why is this art not on show anywhere in the world...Surely its the most amazing art ever done from artists around the world to celebrate Shakespeare for the Millennium. Or google millenniumshakespeare

[RemnantMan]

The Marlowe-Shakespeare Connection book by Samuel L. Blumenfeld offers more than just speculation. Catch a Cable TV interview for some exciting mystery/conspiracy brilliant revisionist history on YouTube titled "Blumenfeld on Shakespeare" part 3 is on Google.

[edboswell]

There was a letter written that Edward de Vere was interested in dealing with him, but was reticent to meet him at Fisher's Folly, the Mansion he had where he was hanging out with dramatists. Kyd might have been a go-between. NO PROOF THAT THE MAN FROM STRATFORD KNEW ANYONE OTHER THAN BEN JONSON, who parodied him as a BUFFOON, in Every Man Out of his Season. It's de Vere, as Orson Welles pointed out, or one must explain away hundreds of coincidences. HEY, OJ's attorney's did!!

[RemnantMan]

I would strongly suggest that you listen to my YouTube video on "Reflections on Genius" or "Who Wrote Shakespeare" and also review Mike Rubbo's PBS FRONTLINE production entitled "Much Ado About Something" before concluding anything!

[Magemastrtom]

I AM Shadespeare.

[richardayton]

Well... i feel a bit left out now... Ok i'm throwing my hat into the ring, I'm the real shakespeare

[Aracatamus]

Lol, everyone's Shakespeare

[AndrewEdw]

He was murdered and stabbed in the right eye.I wandered in Deptford and found his grave behind a church.This will live with me forever!

[donSatalic]

Is that after you put the crack pipe down?

[devcolbert]

this video is bull.

marlowe did not write shakespeare.

there's no proof, only conjecture.

[lilchico4wg]

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[jack9911]

Marlowe.

Oh, you mean the royal spie. I'm certain I've seen someone who looks exactly like him from Canada. Maybe a desendent or a reincarnation??