Dolly Walker-Wraight
Dolly Walker-Wraight (born April 24, 1920 in Java ; † February 15, 2002 ; also A. D. Wraight ) was an English teacher, historian and Marlowe researcher.
Life
In 1940 she married Robert Wraight, from whom she divorced in 1963. She earned the "Froebel Teachers Diploma" in 1958 and worked as a teacher at the "Dulwich College Preparatory School" (1961–1967; 1975–1983) and at the William Tyndale School (1969–1974).
Her academic interest in Christopher Marlowe began in 1956 after studying Calvin Hoffman's book The Murder of the Man who was Shakespeare . Her research centered around Marlowe-Shakespeare authorship and the interpretation of Shakespeare's sonnets. She joined the Marlowe Society, for which she later made a name for herself as Vice President or President.
She developed drama courses around Marlowe in order to publicize plays and rarely performed contemporary plays. In 1965 she published an illustrated biography In Search of Christopher Marlowe (in collaboration with the American photographer, Virginia Stern). She died at the age of 81.
William Shakespeare's sonnets
Her methodical approach in the book The Story that the Sonnets Tell was to separate parts of Shakespeare's sonnets in their different meanings and meaning in order to come closer to the unraveling of this still mysterious work.
On the one hand, it assumed that the pure text of the poet comes much closer to the truth of its content than any literary interpretation. In your opinion, the main mistake of many interpreters and commentators of the sonnets was that they assumed that only one “person” was addressed in the sonnets written at different times. She identified at least three different personalities. In their opinion, when the sonnets were first published in 1609, the order of the individual sonnets was (re) determined by the poet himself, almost like the art form of a multi-act play.
Accordingly, the first person addressed in the sonnets would be Henry Wriothesley , on whose seventeenth birthday the first seventeen sonnets would have to have been commissioned by Lord Burghley in order to get Henry Wriothesley to marry his granddaughter. - As a second personality, like Leslie Hotson before, she identified a young man "William Hatcliffe", one of the two possible "Mr. WH ". As a third personality, she believed to recognize Marlowe's friend "Thomas Walsingham", who stood by Marlowe for life in the context of his dishonorable sending into exile (naturally under the Marlowe theory that his death was faked), which numerous sonnets expressed. Wraight is characterized by a solid basis for her argumentation, her results, which have been developed over decades, appear complex and precise. Their partially “unique” hypotheses as a contribution to solving the problem of the sonnets can be viewed as original, even if not entirely new. Some of their ideas were formulated before their time.
Archives by Anthony Bacon
In another series of publications, New Evidence , she analyzed the results of the discovery of Anthony Bacon's secret archives , which had remained closed for more than four hundred years. Her attempt to identify the handwriting of the secret agent "Louis Le Doux" with the Marlowe did not succeed with absolute certainty. While there have been numerous positive arguments suggesting an identity between Marlowe and LeDoux, LeDoux may have had other explanations, including: a. that he had been a member of a Huguenot family from Canterbury who grew up there at the same time as Marlowe and later remained in touch with him, or that Marlowe later borrowed the identity of the name LeDoux.
Publications
- Christopher Marlowe and the Armada, ISBN 1897763042
- In Search of Christopher Marlowe, (1965), Adam Hart (Publishers) Ltd; Reprint (March 1993) ISBN 1897763034
- Christopher Marlowe and Edward Alleyn, (1993) ISBN 189776300X
- The Story that the Sonnets Tell (1994) Adam Hart (Publishers) Ltd; Reprint (January 1995) ISBN 1897763050
- Shakespeare: New Evidence (1996) Adam Hart (Publishers) Ltd (May 1997) ISBN 1897763085
- Legend of Hiram: The Sequel to “the Story the Sonnets Tell”, Adam Hart (Publishers) Ltd (August 1996) ISBN 1897763077
credentials
- ↑ http://www.marlowe-society.org/
- ^ AD Wraight (text) and Virginia Stern (photography), Vanguard Press, New York City, 1965.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Comments on AD Wraight
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated November 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ z. B. Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walker-Wraight, Dolly |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wraight, AD |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English literary historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Java |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 15, 2002 |