Play on Words

full length · drama

Mary Stuart: A Tragedy

by Friedrich Schiller · translated by Joseph Charles Mellish

18 roles (0M / 0F / 18 any) · approx 198–273 minutes · 5 acts

Royalty-free Public domain — free to read, perform, and adapt. No licence needed.

Characters

Mary lead 166 speeches
Mortimer supporting 136 speeches
Elizabeth supporting 133 speeches
Burleigh supporting 109 speeches
Leicester supporting 103 speeches
Paulet supporting 79 speeches
Kennedy supporting 57 speeches
Melvil minor 42 speeches
Davison minor 33 speeches
Shrewsbury minor 24 speeches
Aubespine minor 16 speeches
Kent minor 11 speeches
O'Kelly minor 10 speeches
Talbot minor 9 speeches
Curl minor 9 speeches
Bellievre minor 5 speeches
Page minor 5 speeches
Officer minor 3 speeches

Read the play

The QUEEN, the EARL OF KENT.

Elizabeth. How now, my Lord of Kent? What uproar's this I hear without?

Kent. My queen, it is thy people, Who, round the palace ranged, impatiently Demand to see their sovereign.

Elizabeth. What's their wish?

Kent. A panic terror has already spread Through London, that thy life has been attempted; That murderers commissioned from the pope Beset thee; that the Catholics have sworn To rescue from her prison Mary Stuart, And to proclaim her queen. Thy loyal people Believe it, and are mad; her head alone Can quiet them; this day must be her last.

Elizabeth. How! Will they force me, then?

Kent. They are resolved----

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