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  Recent Developments in the Case for Oxford as Shakespeare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Playing the Universal Genius gambit as a means of eliminating a man with, at best, a grammar school education is not the same thing as pursuing the truth.
Second, my guess is that the plays as we know them were written in their conventional order from about 1585 to 1604; in other words, subtract from three to seven years from Chambers' dates, and you'll be about right.
He also offered empty arguments to the effect that we could be pretty sure that Shakespeare's play was written in 1591, with the pirated play being written and published immediately after, and not in 1590, 1589, 1588, or 1587, though any of those years is just as likely as 1591.
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 Faust legend --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
As a child he learned the story from a puppet play; he wrote the last scene of his ‘Faust' in old age.
For most of his life he held the story in his mind until at last it became an expression of his mature thought and philosophy.
In his earliest play, the two-part drama ‘Tamburlaine the Great' (about 1587), Marlowe established blank verse as the medium for later dramatic writing.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9274281   (839 words)

  
 Marlowe Lives!
Dedicated to the proposition that Christopher Marlowe was not killed in 1593, but lived long enough to write poems and plays attributed to the actor William Shakespeare.
Saying a rooster is not a hen is like saying a play is not a narrative poem; it doesn't take much special knowledge to know that, but knowing the kinds of roosters and hens--the many varieties of poetry, and recognizing their clucks and metrical variations, requires a little more expertise.
This is what I intended, and I'm glad a poet of your ability has decided to play, to stimulate discussion and raise the level of debate.
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 Shakespeare FAQ
Whether you've studied the plays for 30 years, or you just discovered the Bard last week through a videocassette of Henry V, your comments, (non-homework-related) questions, arguments and wisecracks are welcome.
The two best Shakespeare sites for obtaining e-texts of Shakespeare's plays and poems are the Complete Works at MIT (maintained by Jeremy Hylton) and The Works of the Bard (maintained by Matty Farrow).
The idea behind this procedure is to have one play as a common subject for discussion, and also to read (or re-read) some of the lesser-known plays.
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 Timeline 1575-1599
1587 Christopher Marlowe’s "Tamburlaine the Great" was first produced on stage and published three years later.
It was later speculated that his death was faked and that he fled to Italy and continued writing plays that were produced by Shakespeare.
The 20-sided timber building for Shakespeare’s plays was constructed on the South Bank of the Thames, England.
www.timelines.ws /1575_1599.HTML   (11080 words)

  
 Theatre Costume and Theatre Links at The Costumer's Manifesto
Queer Play: The Cultural Work of Crossdressing in Medieval Drama
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The Theatrical Baroque: European Plays, Painting and Poetry, 1575-1725
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Allardyce and Nicoll Eds       Holinshed’s Chronicle (as used in Shakespeare’s Plays) [Dent 1951]
Brooke, Stopford A             Ten Plays of Shakespeare [Constable 1903]
Shirley F A                            Swearing and Perjury in Shakespeare’s Plays [Allen and Unwin 1979]
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