Marlovian
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- noun
- /mɑrˈloʊviən/
- Literature
- I absolutely agree that Marlovians seem, on the whole, far more open to debate, doubt, and challenge than most other anti-Stratfordians, and I suspect it's because the case is so different?
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Of course, we Marlovians do not accept that Marlowe really died then, his death having been faked, and it was a Marlovian (William Honey) who first pointed out that the court was not at "nearby" Greenwich, as Riggs and all other biographers apparently thought, but 13 miles away at Nonsuch in Surrey.
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I trust that Carlo and the Marlowe Society won't start deleting too many of my writings for a while, and one committed Marlovian has even asked if they may make sure that my website continues in one form or another.
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However, I would say that, even if you are some way short of coming out of the Marlovian closet, you could do far worse than explore these ideas with the people to whom you find access here.
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It would be good to have a similar summation of Marlovian evidence.
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The main question you will need to address very quickly, however, is to what extent you want to exclude people who refuse to accept that the Marlovian case has any merit whatsoever.
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Every so often, I take a quick peek at the "Marlovian Theory" entry on Wikipedia to make sure that none of our opponents has modified our article in an unacceptable way.
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One of the reasons why I urge doubters to read my book is that I made a study of all 36 plays in the First Folio and found numerous Marlovian clues, clues that only Marlowe could have implanted in the plays.
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Thus, the sonnet can be interpreted as saying that the author of the sonnets is thought to be deceased by the world—thus forming another piece of evidence for the Marlovian hypothesis.
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Of course, we Marlovians do not accept that Marlowe really died then, his death having been faked, and it was a Marlovian (William Honey) who first pointed out that the court was not at "nearby" Greenwich, as Riggs and all other biographers apparently thought, but 13 miles away at Nonsuch in Surrey.
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As a dedicated Marlovian, I often engage in discussions about the authorship of Shakespeare's plays.
Surface Forms
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Etymology
Marlovian is also used for people who support the idea that Christopher Marlowe wrote some plays often given to Shakespeare, with -ian meaning 'one who supports or belongs to' a view. So a Marlovian in this sense is a supporter of the Marlowe authorship theory.