Maria Stuart (biography)

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Maria Stuart is a biography of Mary, Queen of Scots, written by Stefan Zweig and published in 1935. [1] It is presented as a tragedy (Dramatis personae at the head of the book).[ citation needed ] It was translated to English, albeit with radical changes, by husband and wife Eden and Cedar Paul in 1936. [2]

Content

The biography consists of 23 chapters and an epilogue:

  1. Queen in the cradle (1542-1548)
  2. Youth in France (1548-1555)
  3. Queen, widow and queen again (July 1560-August 1561)
  4. Return to Scotland (August 1561)
  5. First warning (1561-1563)
  6. Large political marriage market (1563-1565)
  7. Second marriage (1565)
  8. The dramatic night of Holyrood (March 9, 1566)
  9. The betrayed felons (March–June 1566)
  10. Terrible complication (July to Christmas 1566)
  11. Tragedy of a passion (1566-1567)
  12. The Way of Murder (January 22-February 9, 1567)
  13. Quos deus perdere vult (February–April 1567)
  14. The dead end (April–June 1567)
  15. The dismissal (Summer 1567)
  16. Farewell to freedom (Summer 1567-summer 1568)
  17. A plot is going on (May 16-June 28, 1568)
  18. The net tightens (July 1568-January 1569)
  19. The years in the shade (1569-1584)
  20. The knife war (1584-1585)
  21. We must finish (September 1585 – 1586)
  22. Elisabeth against Elisabeth (August 1586-February 1587)
  23. "At my end is my beginning" (February 8, 1587)

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References

  1. Daviau, Donald G. (1959). "Stefan Zweig's Victors in Defeat". Monatshefte. 51 (1): 1–12. JSTOR   30159004.
  2. Hoefle, Arnhilt Johanna (2018). China's Stefan Zweig: The Dynamics of Cross-Cultural Reception. University of Hawaii Press. p. 50. ISBN   9780824872083.