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 same. MORTIMER enters, and without paying attention to the QUEEN, addresses PAULET.

Mortimer. Uncle, you're sought for.

[He retires in the same manner. The QUEEN remarks it, and turns towards PAULET, who is about to follow him.

Mary. Sir, one favor more If you have aught to say to me--from you I can bear much--I reverence your gray hairs; But cannot bear that young man's insolence; Spare me in future his unmannered rudeness.

Paulet. I prize him most for that which makes you hate him He is not, truly, one of those poor fools Who melt before a woman's treacherous tears. He has seen much--has been to Rheims and Paris, And brings us back his true old English heart. Lady, your cunning arts are lost on him.

[Exit.

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