was shakespeare a fraud or a plagiarist?

[abu nuwas]

Despite my perceptive comment about wariness regarding some long-held view being challenged, it had not occurred to me that Shakespeare has a rather lonely place, as the only writer in English whose identity is fought over, beyond the Anglo-Saxon era. And he just happens to be the most famous by far! He is, though, in quite good company: there are the various editors of the Bible, and there is Homer; again, both pretty famous.

You quoted a bit of Marlowe, and I wondered where it came from.

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