tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942147318185235475.post5953590843425972424..comments2024-03-05T10:34:30.182-05:00Comments on The Marlowe-Shakespeare Connection: Shakespeare and Cambridge by Peter FareyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942147318185235475.post-59409215125288425312013-09-19T06:19:26.605-04:002013-09-19T06:19:26.605-04:00Maureen,
I too believed Florio was well positione...Maureen,<br /><br />I too believed Florio was well positioned to be involved in the compilation of the FF, particularly with his links to the Herbert family combined with my current opinion that Mary Sidney was the most likely driving force behind the FF, too.<br /><br />However, whilst this view is beautifully tied together in a neat little bundle, I find it difficult reconcile this theory against Florio’s apparent poverty from around 1619; which appears to have persisted until his death, in 1625. Whilst this certainly does not negate the possibility, I would question why an important cog, in a project so important to the person who instigated it, would be left in such a state, when it might affect its success.<br /><br />As was the case with the Marlowe/Matthew who turned up in Valladolid, I’m afraid I might (one day) have to walk away from this theory, tantalising as it is; unless anyone can offer some persuasive explanation.<br />Anthony Kellettnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942147318185235475.post-87767490745551683142013-09-18T18:21:07.551-04:002013-09-18T18:21:07.551-04:00This is convincing, Peter. I wondered if John Flor...This is convincing, Peter. I wondered if John Florio (1553-1625) used the word "keep" in the sense you describe and so I googled his translation of Montaigne's Essays Books 1-3<br /><br />https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/766/montaigne.pdf<br /><br />Florio uses "keep" many times n Books 1 - 3 but as far as I can tell not in the exact sense you describe. It has been recently suggested that because many of the words that Florio used in his own literary works also turn up in the Shakespeare plays, he may have either been Shakespeare (The Man Who Was Shakespeare, Lamberto Tassinari) or that he was the editor of the First Folio (Saul Frampton, London Guardian July 12, 2013). If you are right about a Cambridge origin for the author of the Shakespeare plays,it would seem unlikely that Florio, an Oxford man, could have been Shakespeare but it is still possible that he was the editor of another poet's or other poets'work, ie the work of Cambridge scholar(s). Do you have any thoughts about this?<br />Maureen Duff Maureen Duffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942147318185235475.post-14878812803558928632013-09-15T10:32:22.388-04:002013-09-15T10:32:22.388-04:00Thanks Dan.
Nothing original, but I thought it wa...Thanks Dan.<br /><br />Nothing original, but I thought it was worth adding to the list of puzzles for which the Marlovian theory offers a better answer than either the orthodox version or any other non-Stratfordian one.<br /><br />PeterPeter Fareynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942147318185235475.post-76979010629390446382013-09-15T09:03:07.545-04:002013-09-15T09:03:07.545-04:00Full fathom five, five hundred fat Franciscan fria...Full fathom five, five hundred fat Franciscan friars flounder ...<br /><br />Excellent work as ever Peter, fascinating.Dan Sayersnoreply@blogger.com