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1) Mary Stuart
Author
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth I of England is threatened by the survival of her Catholic cousin, Mary Stuart. Wrestling with her own conscience, the Queen agonizes over Mary's fate, amidst fears for her own life. Court intrigue has never been more gripping than in this "acute study in the art of double-dealing politics." (The New York Times) An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Sheelagh Cullen, Kenneth Danziger, Seamus Dever, Jill Gascoine, Matt Gaydos,...
Author
Series
Harvest book volume HB25
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc
Pub. Date
[1959]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service, Inc
Pub. Date
[1958]
Language
English
Description
A conflict raged for 20 years between Elizabeth of England and Mary Stuart, during which the destiny of England as an independent nation of free people trembled in the balance. Elizabeth struggles over whether to keep her cousin Mary alive or to execute her. Each course seems to be of equal peril. The play is by turns a testament to human bravery and personal dignity; a conflict between personal and political responsibility; a struggle between womanhood...
Author
Series
I grandi della letteratura volume 76
Publisher
Fratelli Fabbri
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
Italiano
Author
Series
[Longe F. Collection of plays volume 190, no. 5
Publisher
Printed for J. Debrett, opposite Burlington House, Piccadilly
Pub. Date
M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, Doran & Co
Pub. Date
1934
Language
English
Description
The author has chosen the six years that began when nineteen year old Mary set foot on her unruly land as queen and ended when the last ray of hope faded with the sunset she watched from the window of her prison. It presents her as more than a puppet moving through a pedant's world. Mary is portrayed as a star crossed girl seeking only to live and love and rule and worship as she pleases, bewildered by the intrigue which closed slowly in on her. Elizabeth...