Maria Stuart

Mary Stuart (German: Maria Stuart) is a play by Friedrich Schiller based on the life of Mary I of Scotland. The play is subdivided in five acts and each act is divided into several scenes. The play had its première in Weimar, Germany on 14 June 1800. The play formed the basis for Donizetti's opera Maria Stuarda (1834). Mary Stuart is nominally imprisoned in England for the murder of her husband, but the real reason is her claim to the throne of E... more

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