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Shakespiracy theory.(books on William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe)(Book review)

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From: New Criterion
Date: 20060201
Author:Propson, David

I often wonder whether those who espouse conspiracy theories are ever themselves called upon to organize a conspiracy of any complexity--on the order of, say, a surprise party. The difficulty of even the most mundane collaboration is a powerful argument that none can be kept silent for very long. Jacobean and Elizabethan London was a bad place for keeping secrets: Guy Fawkes was betrayed; so was Essex. "The truth will out" their contemporary wrote--though that author's identity and the truth about his life have long been argued.

Samuel Schoenbaum, in Shakespeare's Lives, the ...

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