Mary Stuart
eBook - ePub

Mary Stuart

  1. 96 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

About this book

Two queens. One in power. One in prison. It's all in the execution. Schiller's political tragedy takes us behind the scenes of British history's famous rivalry between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. Written in verse and based on historical sources, Schiller's play imagines the queens' lives - one in court, the other in prison - surrounded by staff and servants. Their imagined meeting, before Mary's execution, is passionate and enthralling. Robert Icke's lean version condenses the action, cutting the cast to twelve, whilst retaining the play's symmetrical structure and tense atmosphere. In an exciting twist, the first production had two actors learn the roles of both queens, and their roles weredecided at each performance by the toss of a coin. Adding a further duality to the play, this also allowed the first word of the evening to anticipate its ending: 'Heads'.

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Yes, you can access Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller, Robert Icke in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & British Drama. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. A note on the play
  8. Characters
  9. A note on the text
  10. Act One
  11. Act Two
  12. Act Three
  13. Act Four
  14. Act Five