It Was Marlowe: A Story of the Secret of Three Centuries

It Was Marlowe: A Story of the Secret of Three Centuries

A number of years ago I read the plays of Christopher Marlowe; and as evidence of the impression they made upon me, there is still among my recent notes gathered for this romance, the extracts I then wrote down from his Tamburlaine and Faustus. There was something in them to excite more than the passing interest of a boy; and for a long time I mourned over the accepted account of the untimely, and disgraceful ending of that unfortunate poetour elder Shelley, as Swinburne has termed him. Later the Bacon-Shakespere controversy attracted my attention; and while I became skeptical concerning the authorship by William Shakespere of the dramas that bear his name, I could not attribute them to the pen of Francis Bacon. There are many reasons for my disbelief, in the solution of the mystery as presented by the Baconians, but it has not arisen from my failure to study the proofs and argument. One reason, however, must be mentioned. A man, so solicitous of his vi fame as to leave it in his will to foreign nations and the next ages, would not, if he had written the plays, have departed this life without some mention of them. Whoever wrote them was not blind to their merits; and of his knowledge of their enduring quality we have the authors own opinion in the lines: Shakespere also left a will, as mean and petty in its details of gilt boles, wearing apparrell and money to buy them ringes, as though conceived by a tiller of the soil whose eyes had never been raised above his plow-handles. It had been carefully prepared three months before his death, and subscribed while his mind was yet unclouded; but, as in the case of Bacon, we listen vainly for one word from the testator concerning the grandest productions of all time. Ye who have sweat in striking the second heat upon the Muses anvil, think of the utter indifference of both these men concerning the living lines of Hamlet and of Richard! ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 57810
Author: Zeigler, Wilbur Gleason
Release Date: Aug 29, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English