The Marlowe-Shakespeare Connection: June 2013

Congratulations to MSC Blog contributor (and good friend) Ros Barber for winning the Desmond Elliott prize for her verse novel The Marlowe Papers. Click here for The Guardian article.

THE POWER OF US: KIT Marlowe Up, Earl of Oxford Down

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From Amazon: "Rodney Bolt’s book is not an attempt to prove that, rather than dying at 29 in a tavern brawl, Christopher Marlowe staged his own death, fled to Europe, and went on to write the work attributed to Shakespeare. Instead, it takes that as the starting point for a playful and brilliantly written 'fake biography' of Marlowe, which turns out to be a life of the Bard as well." The Spectator praises: "A triumph...perfect." Click the pic to purchase! And click here for our interview with Rodney Bolt!

Nuestra teoría favorita de autoría sobre Shakespeare, en breve

El prodigio Christopher Marlowe, exitoso dramaturgo, poeta y un excelente espía para la reina Isabel I, murió aparentemente a los veintinueve años durante una pelea. Sin embargo, los documentos oficiales en torno a su muerte son extraordinariamente sospechosos, por lo que parece más que probable que las personas poderosas que manejaban su carrera como espía, decidieron proteger no solo a un agente valioso, sino tambien a un genial dramaturgo, involucrado en alimentar con sus obras de teatro la maquinaria de propaganda de la dinastía Tudor. Existen poderosas razones para pensar que la muerte de Marlowe fue una triquiñuela para salvarle de las acusaciones de herejia lanzadas contra él, que podian haberle enviado a la hoguera. Si esto fuera cierto, Marlowe hubiera continuado escribiendo obras de teatro y enviandolas desde algun lugar del Continente Europeo para su representación en Londres; para este plan se necesitaba una “tapadera.” Esa “tapadera” se llamó William Shakespeare.

Haga click aquí para leer un excelente artículo de Isabel Gortázar sobre el asunto la autoría, originalmente impreso en el periódico catalán La Vanguardia de Barcelona y ahora disponible en línea en la pagina web en el español radical.es de España.

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Wonder who wrote Shakespeare? Mike Rubbo's Much Ado About Something makes a compelling case that it was Marlowe. As seen on PBS Frontline and now on DVD. Elvis Mitchell of the New York Times praises: " . . . an inviting piece of film . . . Much Ado About Something is a film of ideas - well, notions, anyway - that are bound to stimulate discussion, an aspect long missing from documentary." Click the pic to purchase! (or rent it today on Netflix!) Click here for our print interview with Mike Rubbo, click here for our video interview. Click here for an 8-minute preview of the film. Click here for a Tampa Tribune feature about Mike Rubbo.

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Nuestra teoría favorita de autoría sobre Shakespeare, en breve

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