Marie Axton

Marie Axton (1937–2014), birth name Marie Horine, was an American scholar of Elizabethan drama, who made her academic career in the United Kingdom. She married Richard Axton of Christ's College, Cambridge in 1962. In 1979 she became the first woman appointed a junior proctor by the University of Cambridge.

Publishing as Marie Axton, she innovated in the study of the succession tracts and related literature, in relation to the debate on the succession to Elizabeth I. In particular she interpreted the succession tract of Edmund Plowden, a Catholic supporter of the claims of Mary, Queen of Scots, and contributed to the discussion of ''Gorboduc'', an early Elizabethan drama from the inns of court. Provided by Wikipedia