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The Queens' Encounter

The Mary Stuart Anachronism in Dramas by Diamante, Boursault, Schiller and Donizetti

by Michael G. Paulson (Author)
©1987 Others VIII, 240 Pages

Summary

The Queens' Encounter is the first scholarly work to examine the anachronistic meeting between Mary Stuart and Elizabeth Tudor in a coherent, international manner. First showing the encounter in the exchange of correspondence between the two queens, Paulson follows the development of an implied anachronism in seventeenth-century France and Spain to the actual depiction of the fictitious interview sequence in Diamante's La reina María Estuarda; the work then shows the «improvement» in the anachronism in the hands of such varied authors as Boursault, Schiller and Donizetti. The epilogue shows some post-Schillerian variations on the theme, to include works by Maxwell Anderson, Lebrun and others.

Details

Pages
VIII, 240
Publication Year
1987
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820406046
Language
English
Published
New York, Bern, Frankfurt/M., Paris, 1987. VIII, 240 pp.
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Biographical notes

Michael G. Paulson (Author)

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