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Negative 1: D. Stauffer Christopher Marlowe did not write Shakespeare. Sources of the information came from http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/christopher-marlowe.htm a website by the UK. Some people to this day still claim Christopher Marlowe wrote the great works of Shakespeare. Christopher Marlowe didn't write Shakespeare and there have 3 great facts to prove it.

The first fact to prove that Christopher Marlowe didn't write the works of Shakespeare is simple. He could have written Shakespeare because he didn't live the exact years Shakespeare had lived. So he could not have written the poems, plays, and sonnets. This is the first of many reasons Christopher Marlowe couldn't have written Shakespeare.

This is the second fact to prove he didn't write Shakespeare. He could not have written Shakespeare because of the time period and dates of his death. Unless he didn't really die and he staged his own death. So that was another of the great number of reasons Shakespeare was not written by Christopher Marlowe.

The last but most useful fact found from my sources proving Shakespeare wasn't written by Christopher Marlowe is as followed. He didn't write Shakespeare because he was a spy, which made it impossible for him to write Shakespeare. So, that was the final of many great reasons why Christopher Marlowe didn't write Shakespeare.

These were 3 of the great reasons Shakespeare’s works couldn't have been written but Christopher Marlowe. Even though some people still think Marlowe wrote Shakespeare. He could have and now we know why.

Negative 2: V. Sears It can be proven that Christopher Marlowe is not the author of Shakespeare's plays. There are some who believe that Christopher Marlowe was the actual writer under the name of William Shakespeare. There is much evidence, to the contrary, even in the passages that William Shakespeare borrowed from Christopher Marlowe.

The first point of note is that the author of " The Taming of the Shrew" must have been familiar with the Latin grammar and syntax. Judging by his translation of Ovid's "Amores", Marlowe was not. Those without the ability to speak Latin hardly include mock Latin lessons in their plays. http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/marlowebio.htm

Not only was Marlowe unfamiliar with with Latin, as well as unlikely to use it, he also sounded very little like Shakespeare in the style of his own work. Although Shakespeare was heavily influenced by Christopher Marlowe, "The Taming of the Shrew" had a humorous essence that was specifically un-Marlowe. Any similarities could far more easily be attributed to the fact that they wrote for the same acting company. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/marlowe.htm

As for documentation suggesting that Shakespeare was actually Marlowe, there is none. Marlowe never traveled abroad, and never paid William Shakespeare for the use of his name. Moreover, there is no documentation that William Shakespeare was anyone at all other than William Shakespeare. There is not even evidence that "William Shakespeare" was even a pseudonym for a completely different playwright besides those that are known to have existed. http://shakespeare.about.com/od/authorshipdebate/a/shkwhowashe.htm http://www.trivia-library.com/b/who-really-wrote-shakespeare-plays-christopher-marlowe-part-2.htm

Therefore, between the differences between William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, and the lack of evidence that William Shakespeare was anyone other than William Shakespeare, it can be concluded that the two playwrights were not the same. Marlowe was not familiar with the Latin language. Finally, there is no documentation of Marlowe living abroad or paying Shakespeare to use his name.

Positive 1: K. Wolfe Through research in many sources such as "The Shakespeare Enigma" (movie) and many other sites that will be listed later, it is believed Christopher Marlowe is the true author of Shakespeare. There are many conspiracies and theories behind this, but today, using the combined data collected, the truth shall be discerned. Even in Shakespeare's own writing, there is evidence that Christopher Marlowe could actually be the brain behind all of "Shakespeare".

First and foremost, there is no solid evidence the Shakespeare went to any finishing school whatsoever. However, it is know that Christopher Marlowe did go to a finishing school. He first attended King's School in Canterbury, and later went to Corpus Christi College to earn his degree in the arts. Already, this Shakespeare, as he is formally known as, is beginning to look doubtful. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/218164/christopher_marlowe_a_player_from_shakespeares.html?page=3&cat=49

Now, all this is good solid evidence of the truth behind Shakespeare, but another fact makes itself known immediately upon reading any biography on Marlowe. It is the fact that he was born in the same exact year as Shakespeare himself. Many use this as the very excuse that Christopher did not right Shakespeare. They say it is because Marlowe was born then that he couldn't have because of the fact the Shakespeare over shadowed Marlowe. It is no coinsedence that Marlowe and Shakespeare of the same birth dates, it is, once again, proof of how this great figure "Shakespeare" is not the man he was thought to be. http://www.shakespeareidentity.co.uk/christopher-marlow.htm

Finally, the theory that can prove Shakespeare to be fake and Marlowe to be the true author. There is a theory, a conspiracy theory, behind the early death of Christopher Marlowe. It is known that Christopher died in a tavern in what most believe to be a bar fight was a stranger. The theory takes a strange twist because it is said that the fight with the "stranger", was not actually a fight at all. It is believed that this was a set up to fake the death of Marlowe. He did this mainly to get away and allow himself to continue his writing under a false identity, a.k.a., Shakespeare. Proof comes in the form of Shakespeare's "Henry IV", where he alludes to the course of Marlowe's life ending not in a tavern, but as a banished man named Falstaff. http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/marlowe.htm

Through tireless research, the similarities between Shakespeare and Marlowe yield themselves to speculation, and hopefully, the truth will be seen. For Marlowe is the true writer of Shakespeare, as Shakespeare himself has even said it himself in his works. It is in your hands now to discern the truth. Pick Marlowe, with solid evidence backing him, or choose Shakespeare, with little known about much of his life.

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