Blackvegetable » Today, 6:53 pm » wrote: ↑
He starts with the murky business of the Dutch Church Libel. This doggerel attack on immigrant workers, pinned to the wall of a London cemetery on 5 May 1593, which is laced with allusions to Marlowe’s works and signed ‘per Tamburlaine’,
is so badly written that it isn’t obvious whether it was intended as a genuine piece of xenophobic abuse, a simulated piece of xenophobic abuse designed to implicate Marlowe as a xenophobic abuser, or a satire on Marlowe and on xenophobic abuse. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n04 ... nd-thunder
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Well, Marlowe was no Shakespeare, but no one except Shakespeare was. I would put him with Ben Jonson and Thomas Kyd. I know that Shakespeare was fond of improving Marlowe's work, which I imagine had to sting a bit.
My wager would be it was intended as a genuine piece of patriotic jingosim, or, "xenophobic abuse."
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