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Christopher Marlowe vs William Shakespear
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Same person?
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it's a conspiracy "
I really like the concept that there was once 'wanted' posters in the streets of London over the murder of a Pen name. |
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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago
Over the rainbow, under the bridge |
Has to be oor Wullie. Marlowe's depiction of the evil Barabas, for example, wasn't a patch on the more rounded and deeper character of Shylock.
Also, his plays from what I've read don't deal with the universal themes that Shakespeare' s did. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Same person?
they were born in the same year I think but Shakespeare died much later didn't he?"
I never even considered the possibility that they were the same person, but, on a semi-d*unken gut reaction to your post, 'The Jew of Malta' was pretty much a cruder 'Merchant of Venice'. Both in terms of offence and subtle vindication.
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My A levels were a lie. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Same person?
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it's a conspiracy
I really like the concept that there was once 'wanted' posters in the streets of London over the murder of a Pen name. "
See how easily we get drawn into these things. Shakespeare was actually a woman |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Maybe not the universal themes of grand emotion, sure, but in terms of characterising actual people and the subtleties therein, Faust seemed more of a 'person' than anyone Shakespeare wrote to my mind.
Although, of course, it's theatre, and 16th century theatre no less. Maybe the subtleties of the conflicted Jew and the only-slightly-corrupt catholic priest didn't play as well in that setting as the grandiose tales of love and passion that Shakespeare wrote, in which case he's of course the better playwright.
I'd love to see them both write a screenplay. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I just want everyone to stop a minute and reflect on how great Allfor1's post was.
Although it did lead me to his profile, which in turn ruined cake for me.
So, basically, allfor1 managed to get pretty much every human emotion out of me in one fell post. Well done sir. |
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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago
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"Shakespeare wrote stock plots and used stock characters, but the words he gave to those characters express truths about the human condition which will last and last ..."
The story wasn't the thing then. Everyone took stories from elsewhere. Shakespeare used Holinshed's Chronicles a lot. But it was the adaptation and treatment of those stories which mattered. |
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