was shakespeare a fraud or a plagiarist?

[abu nuwas]

Thanks. Shakespeare did have his 'gap' years. In a way, they were both men of their time, skating on thin religious ice.

Without claiming to be an great critic of poesy, or the theatre of those days, it does strike me that marlowe has a different tone, or timbre altogether; and that make me wonder how great the great critics are.

My bloody laptop is almost dead it's so slow, though all the anti-virus cheerfully tells me it's all danday. I fume!