Maria Stuart (biography)


Maria Stuart is a biography of Mary, Queen of Scots, written by Stefan Zweig and published in 1935. It is presented as a tragedy. It was translated to English, albeit with radical changes, by husband and wife Eden and Cedar Paul in 1936.

Content

The biography consists of 23 chapters and an epilogue:
  1. Queen in the cradle
  2. Youth in France
  3. Queen, widow and queen again
  4. Return to Scotland
  5. First warning
  6. Large political marriage market
  7. Second marriage
  8. The dramatic night of Holyrood
  9. The betrayed felons
  10. Terrible complication
  11. Tragedy of a passion
  12. The Way of Murder
  13. Quos deus perdere vult
  14. The dead end
  15. The dismissal
  16. Farewell to freedom
  17. A plot is going on
  18. The net tightens
  19. The years in the shade
  20. The knife war
  21. We must finish
  22. Elisabeth against Elisabeth
  23. "At my end is my beginning"