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Clip description
This clip introduces Dolly Walker Wraight, one of the Marlovians who believe that Christopher Marlowe wrote the works commonly attributed to William Shakespeare. There is a group singing about Marlowe at a Marlowe Society meeting. Walker Wraight has written a book on the sonnets called The Story that the Sonnets Tell (1995, as AD Wraight). The narration states that there are 154 sonnets, many of them about exile and loss. Dolly reads one in voice-over, over beautiful shots of travel by car, train and horseback.
Curator’s notes
Filmmaker Mike Rubbo was apparently very intrigued by the arguments and passion of Walker Wraight. This clip has her explaining how she came to write a book on the Shakespeare sonnets. It has some gorgeous superimposing of images while she reads a sonnet in voice-over. Many of the sonnets have themes of exile and a desire to return home which, of course, fits the Marlovian theory that Marlowe was forced to fake his own death and leave England for Europe in 1593.
