tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942147318185235475.post9104543575597185708..comments2024-03-05T10:34:30.182-05:00Comments on The Marlowe-Shakespeare Connection: On Blank Verse: a Question for Ros BarberUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942147318185235475.post-39002156743518329752013-03-01T14:40:57.260-05:002013-03-01T14:40:57.260-05:00I feel I should write this follow-up to my comment...I feel I should write this follow-up to my comment and apologize for the typos. Haste makes waste. <br /><br />Also, to put a bit finer point on what I was saying about how one can drastically over-think what constitutes blank verse, consider this line:<br /><br /><i>My father is deceas'd. Come, Gaveston,</i><br /><br />How would you mark it?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10305510751845653914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942147318185235475.post-39468351686569884172013-02-28T14:21:26.529-05:002013-02-28T14:21:26.529-05:00Very interesting article. And your blog is quite a...Very interesting article. And your blog is quite appropriate reading for the week, given that Marlow's birthday was Tuesday. I'm glad to have found this blog. I must admit I can see no more reasonable explanation than that Marlowe is the author.<br /><br />About Blank Verse, something I know a bit about having written a sonnet every day for a year in 2005, many of which are blank verse. Hence my book is titled <a href="http://365DaysOfVerse.com" rel="nofollow">365 Days Of Verse</a>. I appreciate Ros breakdown of blank verse, and look forward to reading her book.<br /><br />One think I'll add is a quote from an excellent page on the subject which may be found here: <a href="http://www.uni.edu/~gotera/CraftOfPoetry/blankverse.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.uni.edu/~gotera/CraftOfPoetry/blankverse.html</a><br /><br />'Of course, how a person scans a single line or an entire poem depends on the reader's natural rhythms and inclinations, and, while there may be better ways to scan a poem, there is not always a single correct scan. In the first line of "Mending Wall", for instance, the first iamb could be read as a trochee, with the stress falling on "there" instead of "is."'<br /><br />The author is discussing Frost's The Mending Wall, for those interested. This is an important thing to keep in mind, as one could really split a verse into too many pieces while forgetting the fact that the author was indeed trying to tell you something, albeit in a particular form. If Marlowe occasionally strayed from writing someone's concept of "blank verse", it is no matter. His genius shines through regardless.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10305510751845653914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942147318185235475.post-31975515213553227452012-11-23T10:17:59.384-05:002012-11-23T10:17:59.384-05:00As a Shakespeare scholar college friend of mine (w...As a Shakespeare scholar college friend of mine (who contributed to the "60 Minutes With Shakespeare" thing) said when I mentioned I was interested in Marlowe as an authorship candidate - "oh well at least you're not an Oxfordian - they're just a bunch of snobs. At least Marlowe came from humble beginnings like Shakespeare."<br /><br />Though I'm not sure I entirely agree with the sentiment, I can see where he was coming from. To call Shakespeare a royalist is surely to miss rather a lot of nuance. Shakespeare in most of the history plays is about as royalist as ... well, as Marlowe is with Edward II.<br /><br />What state secrets was Marlowe leaking?Dan Sayersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942147318185235475.post-88189865371581407592012-11-22T13:26:14.764-05:002012-11-22T13:26:14.764-05:00actually, i think the epilogue to faustus was writ...actually, i think the epilogue to faustus was written by edward oxenford about marlowe and later segued into the bowdlerized version<br /><br />kit was leaking state secrets on stage ... no way could he have written the first folio ... kind of characters/outlier psychology marlowe featured entirely different from the shakespearean royalistSonja Foxehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16358068337226619311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942147318185235475.post-28944784875489461622012-11-22T06:33:36.953-05:002012-11-22T06:33:36.953-05:00Thanks, Peter!
Maureen Thanks, Peter!<br />Maureen Maureen Duffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942147318185235475.post-9596500063609537872012-11-21T21:45:51.170-05:002012-11-21T21:45:51.170-05:00Hi Maureen,
Try the Baconian book The Shakespeare...Hi Maureen,<br /><br />Try the Baconian book <i>The Shakespeare Enigma: Unraveling The Story Of Two Poets</i> by Peter Dawkins (pp.121-127) at http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fBu58KAzdyQC&pg=PA121<br /><br />PeterPeter Fareynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942147318185235475.post-37102234951137495002012-11-21T18:25:57.905-05:002012-11-21T18:25:57.905-05:00Ros, I think you make a convincing argument that a...Ros, I think you make a convincing argument that a Cambridge man wrote the "Shakespearean" blank verse. I have been trying to get hold of a copy of "Boas, Frederick S. (1923). Shakespeare & the Universities, and Other Studies in Elizabethan Drama". As it is not easily avaialble in hard copy, do you know of an accessible on-line source for this? I am interested in the "Cambridge specific" vocabulary used in the plays. Are you able to give an example of this?<br />MaureenMaureen Duffnoreply@blogger.com