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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.
Her that my heart has changed, that it is hers, And by this letter which you bring to me I am assured that she ... must touch myself, her gaoler's nephew, And Heaven within the Vatican at Rome Prepare for her an unexpected saviour, ...
Perhaps more than any of his other tragedies, Mary Stuart achieves a perfect balance between the "classical," "Shakespearean," and "romantic" elements of his genius.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.