>people read this and think that Marlowe could have been the real Shakespeare>people read this and say that it's better than GoetheHoly pseud bait.
I have never met nor read anyone who thinks Marlowe's is better than Goethe'sobligatory>faust is literally me
>>23547914Aside from contrarians on 4chan.
Goethe part 2 > Mann > Goethe part 1 > Marlowe
>>23547891I prefer Marlowe to Shakespeare but idk why people would confuse the 2. They have very distinct styles
>>23547891We only have writings from Shakespeare after Marlowe died. We don't know how inferior and immature Shakespeare's early works would appear to us, and if Titus Andronicus is anything to go by, they really would be a far cry from the mature Shakespeare. The real reason Shakespeare couldn't have been Marlowe is not a a great difference in value, which can be explained away by the difference of age in which they wrote, but rather the very unique styles of both poets.No one thinks Doctor Faustus is better than Goethe's Faust, but it's still a great work of Elizabethan drama and poetry, and in fact had an influence on Goethe's Faust (probably through German puppet theatre preserving quotations from Marlowe for hundreds of years).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viH6IcYYlS8
>>23547955Goethe part 2 > Goethe part 1 > Marlowe > Mann
>>23548151Fuck off Handke
>>23547914Clive Barker did. He said it was better because Faust escapes damnation in Goethe.
>>23548130>We don't know how inferior and immature Shakespeare's early works would appear to usActually we do have de Vere's pre-"Shakespeare" stuff
