Calvin Hoffman

Calvin Hoffman ( born as Leo Hochman, * November 1914, † 1987) was an American journalist, press agent and writer. He popularized through his book the Marlowe theory.

He made in 1955 for his book " The Murder of The Man who what Shakspeare " the pre-existing but little-known idea popular that not William Shakespeare was from Stratford- upon- Avon but Christopher Marlowe is the author of Shakespeare's works, shown in Wilbur Gleason Zeigler "It was Marlowe " a documentary by Michael Rubbo, Much ado about something .. by the end of the nineteenth century had in his book develops the theory that Christopher Marlowe had to be the true author of Shakespeare's works.

The favored and advanced by Calvin Hoffman theory for Christopher Marlowe is up to now, not accepted and rejected by the majority of Shakespeare experts, the so-called " Stratfordianern " how important other authorship theories for Francis Bacon and Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford.

Hoffman's theory

Its advanced theory consists among other things in the following statements:

• Various details of the life of William Shakespeare from Stratford -on-Avon have serious doubts that he could have been the author of the works of William Shakespeare.
• Shakespeare appears for the first time in his 30 years with no previous works or early works, shortly after his contemporary genius playwright and poet Christopher " Kit" Marlowe has finally disappeared from the scene, was so perished " probably ". (see illustration)
• Marlowe's death in Deptford on May 30, 1593 did not correspond to reality. His death was faked, as important, it supportive members of the Privy Council would have it otherwise, the Archbishop of Canterbury John Whitgift and his Star Chamber for heresy and heresy, and thus death must deliver. Massive accusations of heresy on the eve of his death made ​​his real death is extremely unlikely because of the dispute over an ordinary bill payment.
• Marlowe was initially fled into exile in France and Italy, where he had lived for many years before he returned to England under false names. He had sent his manuscripts and sonnets to England, where they had been under the name of William Shakespeare, an existing person acted as " alias", released to the public.

Hoffman collected hundreds of similar passages ( " parallelism " ) between the works of Marlowe and Shakespeare, which resulted in his opinion clear evidence that Shakespeare and Marlowe were the same person.

Important Marlowe researchers such as Peter Farey and A. Dolly Wraight were first proposed by Hoffman's book to work on this issue. Hoffman and his wife bequeathed her entire fortune for an annual price of the King's School in Canterbury, who has visited Marlowe for an essay on the theme of Shakespeare's Marlowe's authorship question.