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To: Oklahoma

Marlowe died early on, and Jonson wrote his own poetic tribute to Shakespeare, by name, for the First Folio edition.

Yet true believers are nearly always impossible to convince otherwise, despite the mass of evidence to the contrary.

You have your opinions. I have mine. Carry on.


51 posted on 02/18/2018 6:29:19 PM PST by onedoug
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To: onedoug

Occam’s Razor can be applied to most questions and I think it applies to the idea that Marlow’s murder was staged, but stranger things have happened. Jonson is more likely to have been involved with editing the works than actually writing them although a collaboration is at least possible.

One thing is certain about Jonson, however. He very definitely had to have had possession of the plays to edit them. I understand he was living and working for Francis Bacon when the First Folio was published. Does that mean something?

Another odd coincidence is that Edward De Vere’s daughter was the wife of Philip Herbert the Earl of Montgomery and later Pembroke. The First Folio was of course dedicated to Herbert and his brother William.

Now, what is this “mass of evidence to the contrary” proving that the glove maker’s son wrote the works attributed to William Shakespeare?


53 posted on 02/18/2018 7:58:05 PM PST by Oklahoma
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