Post by Elvira Cardigan on Aug 10, 2011 18:35:50 GMT -5
If Marlowe really survived Deptford and lived well into the 17thC writing plays and poems, wouldn't we expect there to have been some contemporary rumour to that effect? Wouldn't there be hints in surviving letters amongst his fellow writers? Or amongst the Wriothesley family papers?
And wouldn't he or his friends have at least wanted to preserve some record for posterity? Wouldn't Thomas Wriothesley at least have left papers identifying M as 'Shakespeare'? Or left provision in his will for his descendants to set the record straight? if he cared enough to risk his life to save Marlowe, wouldn't he care enough to try and make sure he'd one day get the credit he deserved?
And wouldn't he or his friends have at least wanted to preserve some record for posterity? Wouldn't Thomas Wriothesley at least have left papers identifying M as 'Shakespeare'? Or left provision in his will for his descendants to set the record straight? if he cared enough to risk his life to save Marlowe, wouldn't he care enough to try and make sure he'd one day get the credit he deserved?