Thread 24556930

Who does /lit/ like more?

>>24556930 (OP)

False Binary, they are the same

There are, however, serious doubts about the record of Marlowe’s death at Deptford in 1593, doubts recognised by the question-mark in the Marlowe memorial window unveiled in Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey on 11 July 2002. Because so little is known of William Shakespeare’s life that corresponds with the personality of the playwright and sonneteer, there have been reputable scholars in all ages who have doubted that William Shakespeare could have written the works that carry his name. To recognise this “Shakespeare problem” and see Marlowe as the most convincing solution to it, is no bar to membership of the Marlowe Society

>https://www.marlowe-society.org/the-shakespeare-question/

>>24556965
I think they borrowed from each other and worked together, but I don't buy that they were separate people. Just two brilliant capitalist masters of craft.

>>24556930 (OP)
Cervantes

>>24556930 (OP)
Obviously Shakespeare, but that doesn't stop Marlowe from being a truly great poet and dramatist.

>>24556965
If you can't see how utterly dissimilar the styles of Marlowe and Shakespeare are, such that neither one could have written the works of the other, then you have no business reading poetry.

>>24557010
>implying all plays are poetry
ngmi

>>24557003
weren't*

I hate glowies but I make an exception for these two. They actually had style and a soul.

>>24557003

Capitalist? how were they more or less influenced by burgeoning trade routes than anything else?

>>24557037
I'm sorry, does anyone care about Marlowe's prose?

>>24557070
I don't know that they were. Just that they ran a for-profit artisan operation. It's the good kind of capitalism. Incentivization of money led to people like them creating eternal art. It was not meant to be an indictment.

>>24557070
Didn't Shakespeare wrote the Venice merchant denouncing the horrendous crime of usury?
That's based as fuck