Synopsis
Schiller - Volume Two - Don Carlos & Mary Stuart
Schiller trans Robert David Macdonald intro Nicholas Dromgoole
Published by Oberon
This volume contains perhaps the most popular of Schiller's plays ...
Don Carlos - a "play expressing a view of life" where young Don Carlos is locked in a deadly struggle with his father, Philip II of Spain
In Mary Stuart (1800), Schiller, sickened by the excesses of a revolution he had once supported, brings together two monarchs - the English Elizabeth Tudor and the Scottish Mary Stuart, cousins who in reality never met