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The Marlovian theory of Shakespeare authorship holds that the Elizabethan poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe was the main author of the poems and plays attributed to William Shakespeare. Further, the theory says Marlowe did not die in Deptford on 30 May 1593, as the historical records state, but that his death was faked.
Little is known of Shakespeare's personal life, and some anti-Stratfordians take this as circumstantial evidence against his authorship. [37] Further, the lack of biographical information has sometimes been taken as an indication of an organised attempt by government officials to expunge all traces of Shakespeare, including perhaps his school records, to conceal the true author's identity.
Margreta de Grazia writing for the Shakespeare Quarterly says: "Shakespeare’s Ghost Writers" is a brave new book, for in justifying another new book about Shakespeare, it has attempted nothing less than to make literature newly consequential." [1]
Jacques Duchaussoy, author of Bacon, Shakespeare ou Saint-Germain (1962), a non-fiction book that discussed the possibility of Francis Bacon ghost writing for Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes. Petter Amundsens' theory in the documentary "Cracking the Shakespeare Code".
Greenstreet's theory was revived by the American writer Robert Frazer, who argued in The Silent Shakespeare (1915) that the actor William Shakespeare merely commercialised the productions of more elevated authors, sometimes adapting older works. He believed that Derby was the principal figure behind the Shakespeare plays and was the sole author ...
Oct. 30—SHAKESPEARE — On a windy, fall afternoon inside Shakespeare Cemetery, crows cawed as they flew over the grave of William "Russian Bill" Tettenborn and Sandy King. The headstone reads ...
Alexander, William (1568–1640), 1st Earl of Stirling, [17] Well-traveled nobleman, sonnet writer and playwright. Proposed in 1930 by Peter Alvor. [18]Andrewes, Lancelot (1555–1626), Bishop of Winchester, scholar and theological writer, proposed in 1940 by W. M. Cunningham, as a member of a group of Freemasons.
Banquo's role, especially in the banquet ghost scene, has been subject to a variety of mediums and interpretations. Shakespeare's text states: "Enter Ghost of Banquo, and sits in Macbeth's place." [32] Several television versions have altered this slightly, having Banquo appear suddenly in the chair, rather than walking onstage and into it.