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DS COMMS? Escape DJT by faking your death
Dec 6th, 2017
William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe were born450years ago, just two months apart. Marlowe’s plays and poems, all written in his twenties, have been overshadowed by Shakespeare’s. But the Shakespeare name only came to prominence after Marlowe’s apparent demise, and he writes like a continuation of Marlowe, the two bodies of work blending so seamlessly at their join that some people wonder whether Marlowe wrote Shakespeare’s too.
That the theory hinges on a faked death has led many to dismiss it. But is it so implausible?
At the time of his supposed death, Marlowe was out on bail, facing charges that would have almost certainly ended in his execution. Early that month Marlowe’s former roommate, Thomas Kyd, had been arrested and tortured for his connection with Marlowe; within a year, Kyd was dead. Ask yourself this: Faced with the same circumstances, would you consider faking your death to escape?
To this day, people fake their own deaths to avoid criminal prosecution.
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/did-christopher-marlowe-f_b_4723165