Samuel Blumenfeld on the Shakespeare Hoax, part 2

Samuel Blumenfeld, author of The Marlowe-Shakespeare Connection: A New Study of the Authorship Question, interviewed by a Harvard undergrad in Cambridge, MA, on May 14, 2009. In this segment, Blumenfeld briefly theorizes why playwright Christopher Marlowe had to fake his death on May 30, 1593 (in order to escape Archbishop Whitgift's Inquisition) and how his background in Her Majesty's Secret Service provided him with the wherewithal to do so. Blumenfeld also speculates that the body examined by Queen Elizabeth's coroner was not Marlowe's but that of Puritan martyr, John Penry.

For part 3 of this interview, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xyI8e0t7r8

For more on the Marlowe-as-Shakespeare theory, go to:
http://www.marlowe-shakespeare.blogspot.com
and
http://www.marloweshakespeare.org/

For the Inquisition torture that likely awaited Marlowe if he didn't escape: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6511195532517733312&ei=tfowSqffL...

For a raving review of Mike Rubbo's PBS/Frontline film Much Ado About Something, which explores the Marlowe-as-Shakespeare theory, this from Salon.com: http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/feature/2002/03/02/shakespeare/index.html

Daryl Pinksen's website: http://marlowesghost.com/

Some notable Shakespeare doubters: Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, John Galsworthy, Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, John Gielgud, Derek Jacobi - see http://www.doubtaboutwill.org/

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