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Marlowe & Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe & William Shakespeare
I was asked a very interesting question by a student this week who wanted to know why Marlowe’s play, 'Dr Faustus' reminded him so much of William Shakespeare's work.
After going away and after thinking about it for quite some time, I then wrote this particular student a letter about my owm personal thoughts on the particular subject itself:
William Shakespeare’s extremely formidable reputation as the most prolific English playwright rests as much on the survival of his texts as it does on his actual authorship, and that foundation is a lot shakier and far more fragile than tradition would ever even care to admit.
Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare's brilliant contemporary, produced far fewer officially attributed plays and only because his career was cut so short and because his written works were not preserved with the same care or attention to detail as William Shakespeare's written works were.
There is much evidence to suggest a stylistic overlapping, sharing of phrases, and genuine links between each of these men's thematic fingerprints which could highlight the concept that Christopher Marlowe’s hand may extend a lot further beyond his currently accepted canon.
And moreover, the theatrical world of Elizabethan London was extremely collaborative and also overtly fluid, making more rigid attributions extremely misleading as well.
Marlowe’s innovations in blank verse (also known as, 'The Mighty Line') as well as dramatic structure, shaped what would then later appear underneath William Shakespeare’s own name, implying an artistic influence that was so deep that it could potentially border on implying as sense of real and very genuine, original authorship.
But, if we account for all of the lost works, all of the collaborative practices, and all of the possible misattributions? Christopher Marlowe’s true output and real impacts upon English Language & Literature itself most likely exceed any and all of William Shakespeare’s efforts.
This challenges the very long-held assumption about who it was that truly dominated the English stage itself and history, in my own personal and very humble opinion, seems to have crowned the wrong literary giant.
He then came to me, after having read my letter and he told me that he had never actually considered anybody else to be comparable to William Shakespeare at all.....
He also said that he was really enjoying reading, 'Dr Faustus' and that he would keep my letter forever. ❤️
This week was a good week because of that. ❤️
#entertainment
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Christopher Marlowe & William Shakespeare
I was asked a very interesting question by a student this week who wanted to know why Marlowe’s play, 'Dr Faustus' reminded him so much of William Shakespeare's work.
After going away and after thinking about it for quite some time, I then wrote this particular student a letter about my owm personal thoughts on the particular subject itself:
William Shakespeare’s extremely formidable reputation as the most prolific English playwright rests as much on the survival of his texts as it does on his actual authorship, and that foundation is a lot shakier and far more fragile than tradition would ever even care to admit.
Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare's brilliant contemporary, produced far fewer officially attributed plays and only because his career was cut so short and because his written works were not preserved with the same care or attention to detail as William Shakespeare's written works were.
There is much evidence to suggest a stylistic overlapping, sharing of phrases, and genuine links between each of these men's thematic fingerprints which could highlight the concept that Christopher Marlowe’s hand may extend a lot further beyond his currently accepted canon.
And moreover, the theatrical world of Elizabethan London was extremely collaborative and also overtly fluid, making more rigid attributions extremely misleading as well.
Marlowe’s innovations in blank verse (also known as, 'The Mighty Line') as well as dramatic structure, shaped what would then later appear underneath William Shakespeare’s own name, implying an artistic influence that was so deep that it could potentially border on implying as sense of real and very genuine, original authorship.
But, if we account for all of the lost works, all of the collaborative practices, and all of the possible misattributions? Christopher Marlowe’s true output and real impacts upon English Language & Literature itself most likely exceed any and all of William Shakespeare’s efforts.
This challenges the very long-held assumption about who it was that truly dominated the English stage itself and history, in my own personal and very humble opinion, seems to have crowned the wrong literary giant.
He then came to me, after having read my letter and he told me that he had never actually considered anybody else to be comparable to William Shakespeare at all.....
He also said that he was really enjoying reading, 'Dr Faustus' and that he would keep my letter forever. ❤️
This week was a good week because of that. ❤️
#entertainment
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