Mary Stuart was born on 8 December 1542 to King James V of Scotland, nephew of Henry Tudor by his mother, and his French wife Mary, of the powerful House of Guise. Six days later James died and the newborn princess became Queen of Scotland. Thereupon began the jousting about her figure that was to a...

Maria Stuart

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Friedrich Schiller et al. (6 avr. 2021)

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Maria Stuart, described as Schiller’s most perfect play, is a finely balanced, inventive account of the last day of the captive Queen of Scotland, caught up in a great contest for the throne of England after the death of Henry VIII and over the question of England’s religious confession. Hope for an...

Maria Stuart

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Friedrich Schiller (6 avr. 2021)

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Title page of the first edition of Maria Stuart (Tübingen: Cotta, 1801). Photograph by Antiquariat Dr. Haack, Leipzig (2008). Wikimedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Maria_Stuart#/media/File:Schiller_Maria_Stuart_1801.jpg

Introduction

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Roger Paulin (6 avr. 2021)

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The story of Mary Queen of Scots as a dramatic subject had been on Schiller’s mind since as early as 1783. It featured again on the so-called ‘Big List of Dramas’ that he started around 1797, as number four (Wallenstein is number two). This marks Schiller’s return to dramatic production after years...

Act Four

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Friedrich Schiller (6 avr. 2021)

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Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, ca. 1564, oil on panel. Anglo-Netherlandish School. Waddesdon Manor. Wikimedia, public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Dudley_Leicester.jpg Antechamber Scene One Count Aubespine. Kent and Leicester. AUBESPINE. How is Her Majesty? My Lords, you...

Act Five

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Friedrich Schiller (6 avr. 2021)

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William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, late 1580s. Attributed to the Workshop of Marcus Gheeraerts, the Younger. Wikimedia, public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Cecil_Lord_Burghley_Gheeraerts_Workshop.jpg The scene is that of Act One. Scene One Hanna Kennedy, dressed in deep mo...

About the Team

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Friedrich Schiller (6 avr. 2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Alessandra Tosi was the managing editor for this book. Adele Kreager performed the copy-editing and proofreading. Anna Gatti designed the cover using InDesign. The cover was produced in InDesign using Fontin (titles) and Calibri (text body) fonts. Melissa Purkiss typeset the book in InDesign and pro...

Characters

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Friedrich Schiller (6 avr. 2021)

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ELIZABETH, Queen of England MARY STUART, Queen of Scotland ROBERT DUDLEY, Earl of Leicester GEORGE TALBOT, Earl of Shrewsbury WILLIAM CECIL, Baron Burghley, Lord High Treasurer Earl of KENT WILLIAM DAVISON, state secretary AMIAS PAULET, knight, Mary’s keeper MORTIMER, his nephew Count AUBESPINE, Fre...

Act Two

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Friedrich Schiller (6 avr. 2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Elizabeth I of England, ca. 1580, oil on panel. English School. Wikimedia, public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:English_School_Elizabeth_I_of_England_c._1580.jpg The Palace of Westminster Scene One Earl Kent and Sir William Davison meet. [750] DAVISON. Is that you, Lord Kent? Back...

Act One

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Friedrich Schiller (6 avr. 2021)

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Tableau représentant Marie Stuart, reine de France et d’Écosse. Château de Blois. Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blois_-_tableau_Marie_Stuart.jpg A room in Fotheringhay Castle Scene One Hanna Kennedy, nurse of the Queen of Scotland, in sharp dispute with Paulet, who...

Act Three

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Friedrich Schiller (6 avr. 2021)

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George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, 1580. Artist unknown. National Portrait Gallery, London. Wikimedia, public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Talbot_6th_Earl_of_Shrewsbury_1580.jpg A park. Trees at the front, a wide prospect behind. Scene One Mary emerges from among the tr...

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By the time Frederich Schiller came to write the Wallenstein trilogy, his reputation as one of Germany’s leading playwrights was all but secured. Consisting of Wallenstein’s Camp, The Piccolomini and Wallenstein’s Death, this suite of plays appeared between 1798 and 1799, each production under the o...

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(11 févr. 2021)

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Schiller’s Don Carlos, written ten years before his great Wallenstein trilogy, testifies to the young playwright’s growing power. First performed in 1787, it stands at the culmination of Schiller’s formative development as a dramatist and is the first play written in his characteristic iambic pentam...

Love and Intrigue

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Friedrich Schiller et al. (8 juil. 2020)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Schiller’s play Kabale und Liebe, usually translated into English as Love and Intrigue, represents the disastrous consequences that follow when social constraint, youthful passion, and ruthless scheming collide in a narrow setting. Written between 1782 and 1784, the play bears the marks of life at t...

Don Carlos Infante of Spain

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Friedrich Schiller et al. (21 mars 2019)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Schiller's Don Carlos, written ten years before his great Wallenstein trilogy, testifies to the young playwright's growing power. First performed in 1787, it stands at the culmination of Schiller's formative development as a dramatist and is the first play written in his characteristic iambic pentam...

Wallenstein

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Friedrich Schiller et al. (20 sept. 2017)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

By the time Frederich Schiller came to write the Wallenstein trilogy, his reputation as one of Germany's leading playwrights was all but secured. Consisting of Wallenstein's Camp, The Piccolomini and Wallenstein's Death, this suite of plays appeared between 1798 and 1799, each production under the o...

Contributors

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Jules Michelet (1 juin 2015)

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Flora Kimmich translates from French and German. Her translation of Gustav Droysen’s monumental nineteenth-century classic History of Alexander the Great [Geschichte Alexanders des Grossen]—the first into English—was published in 2012 by the American Philosophical Society. Lionel Gossman, M. Taylor...