The Mechanism Of The Imposture
Christopher Marlowe, wounded child of the angels, you are made immortal with a kiss.
How Was The Falsified Murder Arranged?
Given the irrefutable fact of the Shakespeare-X Message, and the available evidence of the historical record, one can only deduce that the falsified murder was well planned in advance, and that it could not have been done without the permission of the Crown.
The historical record indicates that the ‘murder’ took place among known crown agents, at an informal crown safe house near the dockyards for a fast escape abroad.
The date was chosen to be when the Queen was in residence at Nonsuch Palace, and therefore the murder took place ‘within the verge’, infra virgam, a circle of twelve (Tudor) miles radius surrounding the presence of the Queen, which area was subject to different laws than elsewhere.
Inside the verge the ‘murder’ would automatically fall under the sole jurisdiction of the Queens’s Coroner, who insistently demanded jurisdiction, and, under instructions, quickly settled the entire matter with his falsified report.
Queen Elizabeth I then rapidly pardoned the ‘murderers’, within an unprecedented period of a few weeks, and the matter was carefully sealed under the instruction that it could only be opened for re-examination with the Queen’s specific permission.
Thus the entire matter was quickly, conclusively and permanently closed by Queen Elizabeth I.
Some evidence of the Queen's complicity in the matter exists in the writings of Francis Bacon.
Imagine You Are Christopher Marlowe in 1593..
Even though you are the most celebrated dramatist and poet in the land you are reliably informed by powerful friends that within the month you are going to be tortured and probably executed. You have offended powerful governmental religious forces with your outspokenness in favor of reason and against religious superstition. They are so powerful that you cannot be saved.
You are 29 years old.
Marlowe knows perfectly well how good a writer he is, he has known since he translated Ovid from Latin as a student at the age of 20-22. While closely deconstructing the work of Ovid for translation, he has inevitably come to realize that he has the poetic talent to surpass the man who is acclaimed by many of his current contemporaries as the greatest poet who has ever lived.
Marlowe has been famous and feted for his literary genius for years, even as a student at Cambridge University he was a celebrated dramatist, enjoying two grand stage successes each year. His works of poetry are admired and celebrated by all. His company is sought by intellectuals and aristocrats, his stage plays sought even by Queen Elizabeth herself for court entertainment.
He is the most brilliant man in the land. Recognized by all as such.
And still he knows he has hardly even begun his mature work.
He has effortlessly risen to the pinnacle of literature, even while still a student.
Thus Marlowe knows the literary works which he will be capable of one day writing will endure, just as Ovid’s already have for 1600 years. Marlowe knows he has the greatness within him to become an immortal. And possibly the greatest in all literature.
But now instead he must die young with his great mature works unwritten.
Unless he accepts the only deal which is offered: to disappear forever.
And to leave his literary name behind unsung.
And he accepts the deal because it is that or die.
Christopher Marlowe’s Dilemma:
Even under threat of his life Marlowe cannot bear to stop writing. He is not an ordinary man and he knows that he possesses no ordinary talent. While hidden in exile it will still be possible to write.
But he cannot bear to do it in anonymity. It is immortality which is at stake.
Men have died for this throughout all time.
Christopher Marlowe's Plan:
And so Marlowe decides to plant the Shakespeare-X Message within four months of his flight into exile.
The Shakespeare-X Message is something which can never be disputed.
It will prove that he created William Shakespeare, and therefore all the literary works of Shakespeare, simply by making their names spell out a message when aligned together. It is a clear and definitive message and it is a solution for all time.
It will still be indisputable in 400 years or 4000 years. It is proof that Marlowe created the name of William Shakespeare to match his own name in an impossible name message.
The Execution Of Marlowe's Plan:
Upon his sudden flight into exile in May 1593, the poem Venus and Adonis was already written and registered at the Stationers’ Company anonymously, this having been done by chance some few weeks before his downfall.
Marlowe decides it will be the first to be published using the name William Shakespeare. ‘The first heir of my invention’, as is specifically stated in the published quarto.
Before his exile Marlowe is already at work on Hero and Leander and Venus and Adonis, which together are intended as a single book, two similar poems which are variations on a love theme.
Now publishing them under opposing names will deliberately initiate a connection between Shakespeare and Marlowe.
By September 1593, Shakespeare-Marlowe has set his course for the imposture, beginning with the two books of poetry.
The poem Venus and Adonis is published in September, 1593, under the Shakespeare name, to great acclaim.
At the same time Marlowe causes the very similar poem, Hero and Leander, to be registered at the Stationers’ Company by his printer friends. This is the beginning of the visible imposture process.
It is also the beginning of the registration and publishing of Marlowe’s past works, under his own name, a process which was substantially completed by his publisher friends over the next two years. At the end of two or so years most of the official Marlowe work has been registered or published both, and the new name of Shakespeare is being simultaneously established.
Marlowe is rapidly undertaking the process of moving from one name to the other. The course for his life is set.
Christopher Marlowe’s Problem:
Marlowe has a problem now:
The Authorship Question is a puzzle build around a solution. The Shakespeare-X Message is the solution.
But now, as Marlowe begins his exile, he has a solution without a puzzle.
He has set up the Shakespeare-X Message as the solution to the question: ‘Who wrote the works of W Shakespeare?’, but the revelation of the imposture will not be successful unless he now creates an Authorship Question.
He must now create the puzzle which demands to be solved by the Shakespeare-X Message.
Marlowe must generate an Authorship Question in order to have people look for the answer which he has already created.
Thus he begins creating allusions and references to Marlowe’s former work in his new Shakespeare plays.
And he generates interest in the question of identity by repeatedly using it as a plotline in his new Shakespeare plays. This is Marlowe guiding us towards the Authorship Question, and thus towards the Shakespeare-X Message as the solution.
When he takes mistaken identity, as one of the major recurring themes of his Shakespeare work he is not obsessively writing about mistaken identity, he is deliberately directing our attention to it.
This is why it is not a major feature of the plays written under the Marlowe name. It was not (originally) a psychological obsession for him, it was something done later with deliberate purpose.
And so over time the brilliant Shakespeare-Marlowe creates something dazzlingly imaginative:
A solution, (The Shakespeare-X Message), which instigates a puzzle, (the Authorship Question), and a puzzle, (the Authorship Question), which instigates a search for the solution, (The Shakespeare-X Message).
Finding either one leads us to search for the other.
Finding them both is irrefutably conclusive.
Shakespeare-Marlowe proves himself just as intellectually brilliant as we suspect he must have been to write the Shakespeare plays.
We should remember that it was probably Marlowe’s very life which was at stake, if the imposture had been too easily uncloaked too early. And Elizabethan torture was savagely effective and not to be undergone at any cost.
Seen in this light the abstract rebus of the imposture is a daring, brilliantly conceived and controlled creation. Marlowe has created a network of subtle and perfectly judged literary allusions, which is a masterpiece.
Could any other person in history have conceived of something this daringly brilliant?
And then gambled their life on it succeeding.
It is plotted to perfection for all time.
