what did Jonathan say 34:37 nobody nobody expressed doubt about 34:40 Shakespeare before 1838 John Dowdell 34:48 history of Shakespeare watery rails 34:50 against though who and I quote had the 34:52 hardihood to question Shakespeare’s 34:53 identity
In his book Traditionary anecdotes of Shakespeare, collected in Warwichshire in 1693 (1838) John Dowdell refers to someone "having labored to prove that he was one and the same person with Christopher Marlowe." Waugh apparently did not follow up to identify this earlier source and assumed that Dowdell was questioning Shakespeare’s authorship of the works attributed to him in the late 1590s and after.
But Waugh was wrong: rather than claiming that Marlowe wrote Shakespeare, it was that Marlowe was an early pseudonym for Shakespeare.
Proposed by an anonymous writer in the Monthly Review, August 1819, the theory was that Shakespeare was “one and the same person with Christopher Marlowe,” wherein Shakespeare had made up a fictional Marlowe as a “nom de guerre,” and which he killed off prior to publication of poems under his real name: “Shortly afterward . . . an improbable story was circulated that Marlowe had been assassinated with his own sword, which attracted no judicial inquiry.” https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000093224826;view=1up;seq=376