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]
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The biography consists of 23 chapters and an epilogue:
- Queen in the cradle (1542-1548)
- Youth in France (1548-1555)
- Queen, widow and queen again (July 1560-August 1561)
- Return to Scotland (August 1561)
- First warning (1561-1563)
- Large political marriage market (1563-1565)
- Second marriage (1565)
- The dramatic night of Holyrood (March 9, 1566)
- The betrayed felons (March–June 1566)
- Terrible complication (July to Christmas 1566)
- Tragedy of a passion (1566-1567)
- The Way of Murder (January 22-February 9, 1567)
- Quos deus perdere vult (February–April 1567)
- The dead end (April–June 1567)
- The dismissal (Summer 1567)
- Farewell to freedom (Summer 1567-summer 1568)
- A plot is going on (May 16-June 28, 1568)
- The net tightens (July 1568-January 1569)
- The years in the shade (1569-1584)
- The knife war (1584-1585)
- We must finish (September 1585 – 1586)
- Elisabeth against Elisabeth (August 1586-February 1587)
- "At my end is my beginning" (February 8, 1587)
References edit
- ^ Daviau, Donald G. (1959). "Stefan Zweig's Victors in Defeat". Monatshefte. 51 (1): 1–12. JSTOR 30159004.
- ^ Hoefle, Arnhilt Johanna (2018). China's Stefan Zweig: The Dynamics of Cross-Cultural Reception. University of Hawaii Press. p. 50. ISBN 9780824872083.