Shakespeare Thy Name Is Marlowe, Published 1966

David Rhys Williams

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and enabling them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Max Planck

Shakespeare Thy Name Is Marlowe

Table of Contents

Foreword 7

Chapter I Who Was Shakespeare? 11

Chapter II Shakespeare and Marlowe Compared 19

Chapter III Marlowe's Literary Fingerprints 23

Chapter IV Marlowe's Religious Heresy 40

V Additional Arguments and Conclusion 50-59 . . . 60-68

Appendix I, II, III, IV, V

I The Report of the Queen's Coroner pg 69

II The Queen's Pardon of Ingram Frizer pg 71

III Minutes of the Queen's Privy Council pg 72

IV Charges of Richard Baines Against Marlowe pg 73

V Queen Elizabeth's Remarks Concerning Richard 11 pg 76

Appendix VI, VII, VIII, IX, X

VI Ben Jonson's Tribute to Shakespeare pg 78

VII Tamburlaine's Defiance of Mohammed pg 81

VIII The Theatre of God's Judgements pg 83

IX Authenticity of Coroner's Report Disputed by Shakespeare Scholars pg 85

X The Similarities of Shakespeare and Marlowe pg 87

References and Acknowledgments, Index 89