Mary Stuart
By: by Friedrich Schiller ; a new version by David Harrower from a literal translation by Patricia Benecke
Contributors: Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805
Publisher: Faber
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 107
Subjects: Drama; History
Description: Schiller's masterpiece hinges on a brilliantly imagined meeting between Mary, Queen of Scots - focus of simmering Catholic dissent and her cousin Elizabeth, Queen of England, who has imprisoned her. Isolated by their duplicitous male courtiers, the women collide headlong, each wrestling with the rank, ambition and destiny their births have bestowed, against a thrilling background of intrigue, plot and counter-plot. David Harrower's version of Mary Stuart premiered at the Citizen's Theatre, Glasgow, in October 2006.