Why Shakespeare cites Marlowe in “As You Like It”.

Shakespeare’s As You Like It breathed abroad preserves Marlowe’s denouement in his tragedy of Leander from a Ganymede turned.

I should like to take this opportunity to suggest something Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” tells us. The question of why Shakespeare cites Marlowe in “As You Like It” becomes who are “you” and what is “it” in “As You Like It” breathed abroad. I suggest you are Henry Wriothesley patron to both Shakespeare and Marlowe. In Shakespeare’s Sonnet 83 we…[Read more]

I suggest an emendation of some of Marlowe’s verses in his tragedy of Hero and Leander, published in 1598 as if an “unfinished Tragedy”. The point of my emendation is to develop an approach to an understanding of what Shakespeare has to say about Marlowe’s “Hero and Leander”. For examples in Sonnet 117 Shakespeare tells Henry something about…[Read more]

“As You Like It” breathed abroad is as in an understanding of compare to the treatment of Marlowe’s “Hero and Leander” in the name of Sir Thomas Walsingham and his wife Lady Audrey.