by then) shows that Marlowe did NOT go on to write the Shakespeare canon, chiefly because he was dead (another cogent reason why de Vere cannot be the author, because he was dead by 1604 and no arbitrary redating by Oxfordians can change that). Even an amateur like myself can do it. I have thrice - ThreadSky

modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social • 7 days ago

by then) shows that Marlowe did NOT go on to write the Shakespeare canon, chiefly because he was dead (another cogent reason why de Vere cannot be the author, because he was dead by 1604 and no arbitrary redating by Oxfordians can change that).

Even an amateur like myself can do it. I have thrice

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modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social•7 days ago

been challenged by Oxfordians to take the Bénézet test, a chimeric poem created by Louis Bénézet from Oxford's attributed verse and Shakespeare's verse (mostly the sonnets). By applying no other standard than whether it was good (Shakespeare) or bad (de Vere), I managed to distinguish the two with

modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social•7 days ago

100% accuracy, including independently identifying a verse that was MISATTRIBUTED to de Vere on the basis that it was too good for him and too bad for Shakespeare. When even amateur readers of early modern writers can do this, it seems foolish to pretend that Shakespeare and de Vere are one another.

richard-c34.bsky.social•7 days ago

Bless you again. You don’t know the dating of the plays. Just what suits the Shaxperists. And you don’t even have a candidate. What you on about?

modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yes, I do know the dating of plays. That you think the plays are dated according to "Just what suits the Shaxperists" shows that you have no idea how scholarship works and have not bothered to read anything related to dating the plays. Scholarship may look arbitrary to the ignorant, especially when

modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social•6 days ago

the ignorant are forwarding fact-free claims about the 'real authorship' of the works, but it isn't. It's a fact that Shakespeare's oeuvre cannot be arbitrarily redated to before 1604 without doing severe violence to the entire development of Jacobean-era theatre. Shakespeare wasn't alone in the

modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social•6 days ago

world of Bankside theatre. His plays respond to what his contemporaries were doing and his contemporaries were influenced by him. John Marston, for example, was a firm admirer of Shakespeare and we can date Shakespeare's Jacobean plays by the dates of Marston's in which he quotes from Shakespeare's

modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social•6 days ago

latest. We can also date Shakespeare's plays according to the tendency to incorporate masque-like elements into the plays, which was a Jacobean innovation. Timon of Athens has a masque, Henry VIII has a masque, The Tempest has a masque, The Winter's Tale has a masque borrowed from Jonson's Oberon,

modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social•6 days ago

The Two Noble Kinsmen has a masque borrowed from Beaumont's The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn, which can't predate 1613 since it was written for the marriage celebrations of Princess Elizabeth Stuart to Frederick V, Elector-Palatine of the Rhine. The wedding occurred on 14 February 1613

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