Reflections on Genius

New Book Makes the Case for Marlowe - part 1 of 4 Author Solves Shakespeare Authorship Mystery

Who wrote Shakespeare? That is a question that has been asked by scholars and Shakespeare lovers for over 200 years. The question arose because Shakespeare's biography does not fit with what he is supposed to have written. In fact, Diana Price, in her 2001 book, Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography, examined all of the documents related to Shakespeare and came to the conclusion that he was not a writer. "These documents," wrote Price, "account for his activities as an actor, a theatre shareholder, a businessman, a moneylender, a property holder, a litigant, and a man with a family, but they do not account for his presumed life as a professional writer."
Also, there is nothing in Shakespeare's will, written just before he died in 1616, that makes mention of anything related to a writing career. About this will, Mark Twain wrote: "It named in minute detail every item of property he owned in the world -- houses, lands, sword, silver-gilt bowl, and so on -- all the way down to his 'second-best bed' and its furniture. It mentioned not a single book. Books were much more precious than swords and silver-gilt bowls and when a departing person owned one he gave it a high place in his will. The will mentioned not a play, not a poem, not an unfinished literary work, not a scrap of manuscript of any kind."
And so, for the last 150 years ....part 2 in next blog (Also see lecture on Google in 3 parts by RemnantMan)

The Marlowe-Shakespeare Connection by Samuel L. Blumenfeld published by McFarland.com