"If Marlovians seem more jovial than de Vere’s promoters, that is because 'Kit' Marlowe was cool," writes Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam. Click here for the fun September 25 article "The Shakespeare Truthers."
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
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this is hilarious! we know alot about Shakespeare's life? No, professor. We don't. We have alot of speculation about S's life.
Stratfordian evidence is certainly no better than Marlovian or Oxfordian evidence.
Scalia & Stevens? Conspiracy theorists? Hmmm. Not bad. Looks like the Shakespeare conspiracy is fairly grounded, wouldn't you say? When Supreme Court justices believe in a conspiracy . . .
yeah!
Marlowe rising . . .
yippee for Marlowe but we really don't know if he was "friends" with Shakespeare.
yep, dresdendoll.
we know alot about his life: as a businessman. Read Diana Price's excellent book on the subject.
great job on this website.
Mike Rubbo's film Much Ado About Something is a great explanation of Marlowe theory. Get it on amazon, netflix,etc.
I'm surprised film wasn't mentioned in the article.
Wow, the Baconians must be fuming. Bacon is no longer a candidate? And the Baconian theory started it all, too! And what about the Rutlanders and Derbyites? I don't believe that any of these men were Shakespeare, but to say that the field has been "narrowed down to two" seems misleading to me.
Good point,dres; this is what they try to do...pass off speculation as fact. And it's speculation from their case-closed conviction that Shakespeare wrote the plays. So it's jaded. Diana Price''s book is fabulous, by the way.
I really question whether these professors are capable of thinking outside the box when their reputations have all been built on Shakespeare as author.
So they paint doubters as nuts and fringe. It's typical politics that we see from our leaders every day. Label the opposition. So predictable!
And they're oh so smug!
Carlo,
What I love about you guys is that you all seem to be having a blast. I really can't say this about everyone else, including Stratfordians. Congratulations for making the case for Marlowe and for doing so in a "cool" way!
let me clarify: beware of Shakespeare "evidence" that tries to cloud the connection between Shakespeare the man and Shakespeare the writer. More evidence that Shakespeare the man existed DOES NOT mean he wrote a thing. Of course he existed, by the way.
Do we really know if Marlowe was gay?
No we don't. This accusation was made by his enemies. But there is no evidence in the plays, poems, or elsewhere that Marlowe was gay.
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