Here is one possible addition for a 3rd edition of "Shakespeare's Books." I think it was Clare Asquith who pointed out a likely topical reference to Magdalen Dacre in WT (via Paulina). Dacre likely had many old Catholic singularities at her Battle Abbey home, maybe even a manuscript copy of The Book of Margery Kempe. Do you think "Lady Margery" and other verbal echoes in WT refer to Kempe and are taken by "Our Author" from Kempe's manuscript? How? It was Dacre who gave Marlowe the Kempe manuscript while she helped Marlowe go into Continental exile as a newly converted and persecuted Catholic. Marlowe may have even been one of the annotators of the manuscript. It was supposed to be published, not found in a cupboard while searching for ping-pong balls.
There are no definite literary sources for Shakespeare's works after 1604, the year the Earl of Oxford died. This is but one of the many strong pieces of evidence that Oxford used "Shakespeare" as a pen name for his own literary works. If Professor Gillespie has any contrary evidence, I hope he will share it.
Here is one possible addition for a 3rd edition of "Shakespeare's Books." I think it was Clare Asquith who pointed out a likely topical reference to Magdalen Dacre in WT (via Paulina). Dacre likely had many old Catholic singularities at her Battle Abbey home, maybe even a manuscript copy of The Book of Margery Kempe. Do you think "Lady Margery" and other verbal echoes in WT refer to Kempe and are taken by "Our Author" from Kempe's manuscript? How? It was Dacre who gave Marlowe the Kempe manuscript while she helped Marlowe go into Continental exile as a newly converted and persecuted Catholic. Marlowe may have even been one of the annotators of the manuscript. It was supposed to be published, not found in a cupboard while searching for ping-pong balls.
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to recognize Stuart’s general attitude towards the authorship problem, a pity….
There are no definite literary sources for Shakespeare's works after 1604, the year the Earl of Oxford died. This is but one of the many strong pieces of evidence that Oxford used "Shakespeare" as a pen name for his own literary works. If Professor Gillespie has any contrary evidence, I hope he will share it.