My heart belongs to me: the life and fate of Maria Stuart
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The life of Maria Stuart was performed by unprecedented drama and contradictions. Having become Queen Scotland at the age of nine months, and the queen of France was sixteen, she ascended the throne, which belonged to her, at eighteen. As the head of one of the most troubled countries in Europe, torn by a religious conflict and the struggle for power, Maria carried the army to victory and to defeat, she survived the murder of her second husband and married the one who was called the killer. At twenty -five, she was captured by another queen - Elizabeth Tudor, who signed Mary after nineteen -year imprisonment. The death sentence. The famous historian and biographer John Gai study the labyrinths of conspiracies who weaved the Scottish lords, trying to seize power, and the efforts that the ministers of Elizabeth applied to exclude Maria from among the legal heirs of the English throne. He offers completely new interpretations of a famous story, which for many centuries inspired writers, poets, composers, artists and directors. The book formed the basis of the film shot in 2018 in the UK with Syrsha Ronan in the role of Maria and Margot Robbie in the role of Elizabeth.
“I decided to write a new biography of Mary. I wanted to get to the very essence: to see a woman whose choice was understandable, and the solutions are logical, and not a collection of stereotypes or convenient and poorly consistent myths. I wanted to tell the story of Maria Stuart, if possible, having given her a word to herself, and at the same time show why other people"s testimonies of the same events are strikingly different from her point of view. ” (John Guy)
“I decided to write a new biography of Mary. I wanted to get to the very essence: to see a woman whose choice was understandable, and the solutions are logical, and not a collection of stereotypes or convenient and poorly consistent myths. I wanted to tell the story of Maria Stuart, if possible, having given her a word to herself, and at the same time show why other people"s testimonies of the same events are strikingly different from her point of view. ” (John Guy)
Author:
Author:Guy J .
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:offset
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-389-19466-3
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