Mary Stuart: A Tragedy

Name: Mary Stuart: A Tragedy
Author: Friedrich Schiller
ISBN: 9781787243200

Author: Friedrich Schiller
Series: World Classics
Language: English
Length: 196 pages
ISBN: 9781787243200
Published: 24 September 2017
Imprint: Sovereign

Schiller
Weimar
drama
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aesthetics
poetry
epic
romantic
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Description

Mary Stuart is imprisoned in England for the murder of her husband Darnley. Her imprisonment may well be politically motivated because of her claim to the throne of England held by Queen Elizabeth I. While Mary's cousin, Elizabeth, hesitates over signing Mary's death sentence, Mary hopes for a reprieve.

Author

Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) was the great dramatist of German liberty — The Robbers, Mary Stuart, Wilhelm Tell — and a poet-philosopher of the beautiful and the sublime. With Goethe he made Weimar a capital of letters. Schiller's plays turn history into moral weather: tyranny, honour, and the chance of a free people. With 22 titles in our catalogue, he remains a founding voice of European Romantic drama.

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