Spine: The Enlightened World of Folger's 'Mary Stuart'
Frederic Schiller’s historical drama, Mary Stuart (1800), gives us two potent, yet vulnerable women, Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It gives us religious fanaticism — no, not Sunni versus Shia but protestant versus catholic, and the bloodletting is only just beginning. It gives us the political and the ethical, and the machinations in […] The post Spine: The Enlightened World of Folger’s…