Christopher Marlowe Conspiracy Research Paper

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This conspiracy takes us back to Deptford in 1593. Supposedly Christopher Marlowe was killed in a tavern brawl. He was stabbed in the eye, which some people might call a just for reckoning for the crime of being a flagrant atheist. Many scholars believe that Christopher Marlowe faked his death and that William Shakespeare was named as the play’s author to protect the truth of what really happened to Christopher Marlowe. I believe that the conspiracy theories are true. There is a lot of believable evidence supporting the conspiracy, that Christopher Marlowe faked his death, and put his plays in Shakespeare’s name to protect the truth of what really happened to Marlowe on the day of May 30th, 1593. Wilbur Gleason Zeigler was a lawyer and writer …show more content…

There are one hundred duplicated lines in William Shakespeare’s writings taken from previous writing by Christopher Marlowe. There are also many references to Marlowe in Shakespeare’s writings. For example, “Act 2, Scene 8 “The Merchant Venice” Shakespeare used the word “gondola” which had never appeared in print in any English book prior to that time”(fun trivia). Many scholars believe that it was reference to Christopher Marlowe’s travels to Italy after his supposed death. The most famous references are William Shakespeare’s sonnets, which talk about the writer being “exiled” something that never happened to William Shakespeare. Another famous passage from “As You Like It,” Act 3, Scene 3: “When a man’s verses cannot be understood, nor a man’s good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room” (fun trivia). Both writers used an average of 240 four-letter words per thousand, 130 five-letter words, and 60 six-letter words, with other word-lengths close if not exact. Baconian compared “the distribution curves of Bacon and Shakespeare, he found no match; comparing Shakespeare’s plays with those of his contemporaries he noted a 4-word ‘spike’ that no other playwright replicated except Marlowe” (The Shakespearean Authorship

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