Schiller’s play pits Mary, Queen of Scots against her rival Queen Elizabeth I. The meeting never happened but, as Goethe said, “It will be good to see those two whores alongside each other.. Schiller’s Mary redeems her youthful crimes through an ordeal that lifts her into realms of spiritual serenity, while Elizabeth descends deeper into rage, revenge and deception. Oswald has written this striking new version in a mixture of prose and poetry.

Published by Oberon books

106 pages

Condition; Label on cover, some crossings out in pencil in the text – still readable and can be erased.