Maria Stuart
By: Schiller, Friedrich [ ]
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Contributor(s): Kimmich, Flora [translator ].
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BookSeries: Open Book Classics Series 12.Publisher: Cambridge : Open Book Classics , 2020Description: 120 p. Illustrationen.ISBN: 9781783749812.Uniform titles: Maria Stuart Subject(s): Elizabeth I Queen of England 1533-1603 -- Drama | Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 -- Drama | Elizabeth | Mary | Drama -- History -- Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 -- Scotland | ScotlandDDC classification: 832.6 Online resources: kostenfrei | Connect to cover image Cover Summary: Translator's Note / Flora Kimmich -- Introduction / Roger Paulin -- Maria Stuart / Friedrich Schiller and Flora Kimmich. Characters ; Act One ; Act Two ; Act Three ; Act Four ; Act Five -- Short Life of Mary Stuart / Flora Kimmich -- Endnotes / Flora Kimmich.Summary: 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 and doubt about Mary's deliverance grow in the first two acts, given to the Scottish and the English queen respectively, reach crisis at the center of the play, where the two queens meet in a famous scene in a castle park, and die away in acts four and five, as the action advances to its inevitable end. The play is at once classical tragedy of great fineness, costume drama of the highest order--a spectacle on the stage--and one of the great moments in the long tradition of classical rhetoric, as Elizabeth's ministers argue for and against execution of a royal prisoner. Flora Kimmich's new translation carefully preserves the spirit of the original: the pathos and passion of Mary in captivity, the high seriousness of Elizabeth's ministers in council, and the robust comedy of that queen's untidy private life. Notes to the text identify the many historical figures who appear in the text, describe the political setting of the action, and draw attention to the structure of the play. Roger Paulin's introduction discusses the many threads of the conflict in Maria Stuart and enriches our understanding of this much-loved, much-produced play
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Translator's Note / Flora Kimmich -- Introduction / Roger Paulin -- Maria Stuart / Friedrich Schiller and Flora Kimmich. Characters ; Act One ; Act Two ; Act Three ; Act Four ; Act Five -- Short Life of Mary Stuart / Flora Kimmich -- Endnotes / Flora Kimmich.
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 and doubt about Mary's deliverance grow in the first two acts, given to the Scottish and the English queen respectively, reach crisis at the center of the play, where the two queens meet in a famous scene in a castle park, and die away in acts four and five, as the action advances to its inevitable end. The play is at once classical tragedy of great fineness, costume drama of the highest order--a spectacle on the stage--and one of the great moments in the long tradition of classical rhetoric, as Elizabeth's ministers argue for and against execution of a royal prisoner. Flora Kimmich's new translation carefully preserves the spirit of the original: the pathos and passion of Mary in captivity, the high seriousness of Elizabeth's ministers in council, and the robust comedy of that queen's untidy private life. Notes to the text identify the many historical figures who appear in the text, describe the political setting of the action, and draw attention to the structure of the play. Roger Paulin's introduction discusses the many threads of the conflict in Maria Stuart and enriches our understanding of this much-loved, much-produced play
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In English, translated from the original German
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