Shakespeare

Sources: The Folgers Library of Shakespeare – biographical information

www. For a young Elizabethan poet to have been natural, direct, or simple would have been somewhat unnatural. It is argued that there are severe irregularities in the coroner's inquest and that evidence suggests that Marlowe did not really die but instead, lived to write all of the work's penned under the name of Shakespeare. The theatres were once again opened in 1594 and Shakespeare then concentrated on writing plays again and in 1609 he wrote his last long poem, A Lover's Complaint.

Shakespeare began to write poems during a time when public places including theatres were closed down because of serious outbreaks of the plague. The fact that even after 300 years of arduous research to find any documents which connect William Shakespeare to what might be the greatest literary works of all time, none have ever been found. Also, during the Elizabethan and Jacobean times it was popular to keep authorships hidden.

“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

When in eternal lines to time thou growest: --

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Christopher Marlowe died in 1593 at the age of 29. Venus and Adonis helped to rank him among the poets of his time, and he regarded it as the first legitimate creation of his imagination. "Under the Greenwood Tree" is one of the more famous poems, and it was sung by Amiens, one of the lords attending on the banished Duke Senior. Stratfordian scholars on the other hand believe a man named William Shakespeare did write these works. He also used history and myths as inspiration. It is a bit absurd to believe this however when all other plays of Marlowe's are attributed to him. One connection that I discovered when reading this poem was how he describes what I believe to be one of his plays Othello.