PALM SPRINGS, Calif.,
Oct. 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Dead
men don't write plays.
That's the explanation from Sir Francis
Walsingham, the head of England's spy system, in The Shakespeare
Conspiracy, by Ted Bacino.
"Fourteen plays?" he asks. "And Shakespeare's been dead
for years. Some playwrights don't write that many plays in a
whole lifetime and certainly not after they've died."
The question of the authorship of Shakespeare's plays once again
took center stage this week when the prestigious and highly
respected New Oxford edition of the Complete Works of Shakespeare
lists Christopher Marlow as the
co-author of three of the plays ("Henry VI," Parts One, Two and
Three).
According to The London Guardian, these three are among the 17
or more that are now believed to "contain writing by other
people."
According to The New York
Times, this is the first time another author has been
listed on the title page of any of Shakespeare's works. An
esteemed team of 23 scholars from five countries completed the
research on this.
Two questions have plagued historians for hundreds of
years. How could Christopher
Marlowe, a known spy and England's foremost playwright, be suspiciously
murdered and quickly buried in an unmarked grave – just days before
he was to be tried for treason?
And, how could William
Shakespeare replace Marlowe as England's greatest playwright virtually
overnight – when Shakespeare had never written anything before and
was merely an unknown actor?
According to The Shakespeare Conspiracy, the answer lies
in Marlowe's suspicious murder and the unmarked grave, which has
never been found to this day. If Marlowe's death was faked,
as many historians believe, he could have fronted for Shakespeare
for years. That would explain the plays that regularly
appeared after 1616 when Shakespeare died. Marlowe could have
outlived Shakespeare and continued to write.
There have always been many questions about the Bard's ability
to have written those works. Marlowe was highly educated
while Shakespeare had a grammar school education of "little Latin
and less Greek." Marlowe traveled extensively, knew court
manners, legal issues, and maritime facts. Shakespeare had no
background in these areas that are so prevalent in his plays and he
never left England, even though
many of the works take place in Italy.
Bacino's novel is written as "The Greatest Literary Deception
of All Time." It chronicles the life that Marlowe
possibly lived as a fugitive, writing the works we know today as
those of Shakespeare.
Also, researchers have found almost a hundred identical or very
similar lines in the writings of Marlowe and Shakespeare. Did one
person write both?
The last fifty pages of Bacino's novel is a supplement of
historical notes and data to verify the accuracy of the details in
his novel.
Throughout history, there have been many suggestions of who
could have been the real author of Shakespeare's works. The
two most popular candidates are the Earl of Oxford and Christopher Marlowe. Each has a strong and
very active following. (See The Shakespeare Authorship
Coalition.)
The major argument that Marlowe could not be the author is that
he was murdered in 1593 before Shakespeare's writings began
appearing. The conspiracy theory explains how Marlowe could
have been alive to write these works if his murder was faked.
The major argument against the Earl of Oxford being the author
is that he died in the year 1604, well before most of the works
were appeared.
Bacino's novel, The Shakespeare Conspiracy, has been made
into a stage play of the same title, which has had productions in
Columbus, Ohio, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Rockford University in Illinois.
The rights for the play have recently been released for amateur
and college productions.
The Sydney Morning Herald put the issue succinctly:
Has the debate over the authorship of Shakespeare's
plays…finally been settled? The paper wrote that this
recent revelation sheds "new light on the links between the two
great playwrights after centuries of speculation and conspiracy
theories."
www.TheShakespeareConspiracy.com
CONTACT:
Dr. Rufus
Cadigan
(815) 969 –
9065
131131@email4pr.com
Or
Ted Bacino
(760) 778 – 1030
131131@email4pr.com
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