It takes a lot of shady maneuvering to get the two queens of Friedrich Schiller's 1800 "Mary Stuart" to the center of the chessboard, but when it finally happens the showdown is deluxe. Romantic jealousy, religious friction and the fates of quarreling nations all collide as England's Protestant Queen Elizabeth and her prisoner, Scotland's Catholic Queen Mary, go nose to nose.Read full article >>
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:36PM on February 2, 2015