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Christopher Marlowe vs William Shakespear

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Discuss.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Same person?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Marlowe wins, fight stopped in the eighth after a sustained barrage of blows to the head.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

I'm afraid I don't know enough about either to make an informed contribution.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Same person? "

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Marlowe wins, fight stopped in the eighth after a sustained barrage of blows to the head."

Took me a minute to get this, but,

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Same person?

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it's a conspiracy

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"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 *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

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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


"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


"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

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 *nfieldishCouple
over a year ago

Enfield


"I'm afraid I don't know enough about either to make an informed contribution."

Refreshing...that doesn't stop a lot of posters..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't know enough about the times before Jesus Christ and dinosaurs...were they Egyptians?, or Georgians or something like that?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

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 *rtemisiaWoman
over a year ago

Norwich

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 ...

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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge


"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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