The Queens' Encounter
The Mary Stuart Anachronism in Dramas by Diamante, Boursault, Schiller and Donizetti
©1987
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VIII,
240 Pages
Series:
Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures, Volume 1
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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