Mary Queen of Scots got her head chopped off
By: Liz Lochhead
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Drama; History
Description: Liz Lochhead's play 'Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off' is about the bitter rivalry between Mary, Queen of Scots, and her cousin and fellow ruler, Elizabeth I of England. The story is presented in a distinctive cabaret style, with much of the dialogue in the 'Braid Scots' vernacular. It explores the deep sectarian divisions within Scotland and dramatises the fateful moment the country rejected Mary's Catholicism for the Protestantism of anti-feminist revolutionary John Knox.
Notes: Previously issued in print: London: Nick Hern Books, 2009.