28 Thursday Apr 2016
Posted in Scribbling, Things
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It turns up in a book I hadn’t opened in some time. It slips out from between two pages, and flutters its way to the carpet before I can catch it.
It’s a scrap of squared paper, a leaf from some old notepad from my previous life, carrying an ugly yellow logo and covered in many-coloured scribbles.
First of all, written in blue ball-point pen, a snippet of dialogue between Kit Marlowe and Thomas Walsingham… Continue reading
09 Saturday Jan 2016
Posted in History
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A.D. Wraight, christopher marlowe, Marlovianism, Scadbury, Sir Francis Walsingham, Thomas Walsingham
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I’m no Marlovian, thank you very much. I think Kit Marlowe was a genius without adding Shakespeare’s canon in the bargain and, if you wanted to pigeon-hole me, you could say I’m an orthodox Stratfordian who occasionally enjoys the story potential of alternative theories – provided it’s done well.
This is to explain that I don’t share the opinions contained in the Marlowe Studies Website. Still, they have lovely things there – one being a series of black and white images of Thomas Walsingham’s Scadbury Manor. Or at least, what remains of it. Continue reading
