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5.0
The Oswald translation of Mary Stuart is a delicious text, full of the tensions and questions that roiled England through much of Elizabeth I's reign. Schiller takes the question of what the relationship between Elizabeth and her doomed cousin must have been and plays it out to its logical conclusion. He raises questions like, How would a meeting between these women go? To what extent are they (or any of us) free to make their own choices? How does the arc of history curl back on itself?
I've read several translations of this text, but this is the one I can most readily hear in the mouths of actors, especially Act 3, when the two women come face to face.
I've read several translations of this text, but this is the one I can most readily hear in the mouths of actors, especially Act 3, when the two women come face to face.
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