The Marlowe Trilogy 1. The Plot
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2. The Ghost Writer
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3. The Dishonour
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A Case for Christopher Marlowe In the view of the establishment there is no mystery. There is no reason even to doubt that the Shakespeare dramatic works could not have been written by anyone but Shakespeare, since they were published in his name. The printed standard edition of his works however was not published until six years after his death and nine years after he had left the theatre for good, and this standard version, The First Folio, consisted almost half of it of works that never had been published earlier, some even never staged earlier, and some of the plays that had been published earlier (in bad Quarto editions) appeared in the final edition in altered and even very altered form, especially Hamlet and Othello. Someone must have edited and added to the plays after the official poet’s death and that to a considerable degree. The actors involved in the Shakespeare drama are mainly the following: The earl of Oxford, 1550-1604, an acknowledged pioneer in Elizabethan drama, who owned a theatre company and wrote plays himself, among others an early version of Romeo and Juliet, but none of his own plays have survived.
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