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William Shakespeare , Ralph Crane, both alias names of Marlowe ! Who wrote "The Merry wives of Windsor?

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the marlowe conflation

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Oct 5, 2014, 7:33:04 AM10/5/14
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Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" appeared as first Quarto (Q1 -1602), as second Quarto(Q2-1619, similar to Q1) and as First Folio (FF-1623). FF is nearly twice as long as that of Q1/Q2. Nearly all the scenes are longer than in Q1/Q2 and FF text adds the Latin lesson in Act IV/1 as well as several scenes at the beginning of act V.
Shakespeare experts and encyclopedias reveal that there was a scrivener Ra(l)ph Crane who transcribed Shakespeare's plays for the First Folio (none has survived) and made massed entrances (stage direction, act/scene disvision, speech prefixes, treatment of meters, spelling etc.), for various Shakespeare "Transcripts" such as for "The Merry Wives of Windsor". Thus, Crane naturally has to be a matter of interest for those interested in solving unanswered authorship questions.
http://www.der-wahre-shakespeare.com/experts-silence.html

Crane's involvement of the First Folio is so extensive and of such kind, that he was termed "Shakespeares First Editor." Shakespeare experts cannot expect me to believe that Ralph Crane was a "simple" scrivener. He published his own poems such as "The pilgrimes New-Yeares-Gift (1625) - only a year after the appearance of the Forst Folio - "Crane" wrote in this book about himself in "The Authors Induction"

Push button in Blog 208 in order to be able to read exemplary page 11!
http://www.der-wahre-shakespeare.com/blog-english/208-shakespeares-the-merry-wives-of-windsor-and-his-first-folio-editor-ralph-crane-whats-his-identity

(Only) If you are aware of the Marlowe/alias Shakespeare Thesis (....forced to fake his death, changing identity and name, writing a lifelong under a multiplicity of pseudonyms) it seems possible - as far as I can see - to interprete the "outings" of the scrivener (scribe) Ralph Crane, who has made so many additions to the "Merry Wives of Windsor".
Who else than the author might have had a motive to make such extensive changes? Who else other than the author, could possibly have added such signifant texts and scenes(in the Merry wives of Windser) so shortly prior to FF-printing 1623?

It seems to me that the world has not even begun to search for a coherent theory of who wrote the plays of William Shakespeare.
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