01-10-2014, 01:29 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:Where does Christopher Marlowe fit into all this?
I have only been looking at this for a few weeks now, and only because it intersects my theory of cometary avatars which, during this period, were appearing every 105 or 106 years (1277, 1382, 1487, 1593, 1698, etc.). The previous member of this distinguished group appears to have been Leonardo da Vinci, and no one would argue, I suspect, that whoever wrote "Shakespeare" was operating on a literary level equal to that of da Vinci in the fields of painting, scupture, and invention. Leonardo studied in the workshop of Verrocchio, so there is at least something resembling an explanation of how he came to have the knowledge and skills upon which to base his later development. There is no such evidence in regard to William Shakspere, the actor and co-owner of the Globe Theater.
Though I am not terribly far into my investigation, one thing struck me as quite significant, and that is the graph presented by Thomas Mendenhall in "A Mechanical Solution of a Literary Problem" in The Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 60, No. 2, published at New York City in December of 1901.
The graph is based on the number of words of a given length per 1000 words and includes all of the plays of Marlowe and all of the plays and sonnets of "Shakespeare." This graph appeared before anyone even suspected that Christopher Marlowe had faked his own death in 1593. What this graph tends to indicate, if it is to be taken seriously, is that both the plays of Marlowe and those of "Shakespeare" were not only written by the same person, but they were written alone, with no help from anyone else, unless one would surmise that both authors had help from exactly the same folks in exactly the same proportions.