Mary Stuart - Softcover

Schiller, Friedrich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081200132X ISBN 13: 9780812001327

Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Inc.,U.S., 1981

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About this title

Review:

'Exhilarating - a fast moving narrative about the imprisoning effect of power.' Guardian

About the Author:

"Peter Oswald was born in England in 1965. His original plays include the verse plays 'Allbright' and 'Valadonama', and 'Fair Ladies At A Game Of Poem Cards', 'Augustine's Oak', 'Ramayana', and 'Sha Kuntala'. He has also adapted plays by Sophocles and Lorca. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) ranks as one of the greatest figures in European drama and literature. That Verdi based four of his operas on Schiller's plays is not surprising (I masnadieri, Giovanna d'Arco, Luisa Miller, Don Carlos). Both men were deeply preoccupied with the battle for political freedon, projecting the moral victory of the doomed individual over the power of the immutable State as potent historical drama. Schiller's nobility of theatrical concept perfectly suited the energy and majesty of Verdi's scores. Yet in the English-speaking world Schiller's works are comparatively little known to theatregoers. The dedication of the renowned Glasgow-based Citizens' Company and the inspired decision to present the plays alongside Verdi's operas at the Edinburgh International Festival have gone a long way to remedy this neglect. The fifth play included in this edition was the source fro the opera by Donizetti (Maria Stuarda). Also translated for the Citizens' Company by Robert David MacDonald, Schiller's 'Mary Stuart' is acknowledged masterpiece. "

About this edition

• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 081200132X
• ISBN 13: 9780812001327
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 182