Mary Stuart

Friedrich Schiller · 1800 CE · Play · German · Romantic

Held at Fotheringhay under sentence of death, the deposed Scottish queen still has partisans at the English court, a keeper's nephew planning a rescue, and one request: to be heard by her cousin in person. Elizabeth, pushed one way by Burleigh and another by Leicester, weighs whether a signature would change what she is. Schiller's tightest construction, and the source of the popular image of the two queens.

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