Author:Friedrich Schiller
This dramatic story recounts Mary, Queen of Scots's remaining days held captive in Fotheringay Castle. In scenes alternating between Mary's prison and Elizabeth's court at Westminster, Schiller's play gradually builds a compelling picture of a tragic heroine rising above her suffering to gain in insight and spiritual depth. In contrast Elizabeth, in turmoil over the correct course of action for her country and trapped by the cruel demands of Realpolitik, can achieve worldly victory only at a terrible moral cost. Culminating in a fictitious meeting of the two women, Mary Stuart is a dramatic meditation on the nature of political power, but also a deeply moving human tragedy that captures the emotional essence of complex events.
Destined to join the canon of great works about India
—— Good Book GuideTheroux at his best
—— Today , IndiaBeautifully paced, sexy and disturbing
—— Washington PostI still remember the electrifying effect it had upon me when it was published in 1969. At various stages of life I have become almost possessed by it... The book shimmers with life in every paragraph
—— A. N. Wilson , Daily TelegraphA subtle, elusive novel making its mysterious way forward by side glances and half-gleams, by sudden small illuminations and half-hidden ironies, by a tenderness that is half-mocking and a mockery that is half-tender
—— Evening StandardExhibits extraordinary originality
—— John Bayley , IndependentSaramago can transform banal sentiments into unexpected profundities
—— David McAllister , TLSEarle seems to have little trouble expanding his range from a three-minute song to a 300-page narrative... And though the novel comes no closer to establishing the facts of Hank Williams's death, it certainly reveals a good deal of truth behind it
—— Alfred Hickling , GuardianA witty, heartfelt story of hope, forgiveness and redemption
—— Booklist
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