Women’s Power and Genderlessness: Queens in Schiller’s Maria Stuart and in Plays by Women
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Friedrich Schiller, Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Women’s Dramas, Canonization Issues, Plays about Mary Queen of Scots, Plays about Elizabeth I of England
Abstract
This essay examines problems of the canonization of women’s literature, using two adaptations of Schiller’s Maria Stuart: Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer’s Elisabeth (1841) and Marie von Ebner- Eschenbach’s Maria Stuart in Schottland (1860). The essay offers two interpretations (and critical analyses of these interpretations), one reading Birch-Pfeiffer’s and Ebner-Eschenbach’s plays as Schiller ‘adaptions’ and ‘feminist’ revisions of Schiller’s conservative gender theories, the second contextualizing these plays within the tradition of women’s historical dramas.Downloads
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Kord S. (2011). Women’s Power and Genderlessness: Queens in Schiller’s Maria Stuart and in Plays by Women. Revista de Filología Alemana, 19, 115-136. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RFAL/article/view/37057
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