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April 28, 2008 Clark Hall 206 Reception at 4 p.m. Public Talk at 4:30. p.m.

April 28, 2008 Clark Hall 206 Reception at 4 p.m. Public Talk at 4:30. p.m. Queenfight: Confession, Confrontation, and Coercion in Schiller's Maria Stuart Professor Gail Hart Professor of German University of California, Irvine.

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April 28, 2008 Clark Hall 206 Reception at 4 p.m. Public Talk at 4:30. p.m.

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  1. April 28, 2008 Clark Hall 206 Reception at 4 p.m. Public Talk at 4:30. p.m. Queenfight: Confession, Confrontation, and Coercion in Schiller's Maria StuartProfessor Gail HartProfessor of German University of California, Irvine A challenging re-examination of Schillerian freedom and the necessity of coercion for that freedom to be exercised. THE PLAY Maria Stuart, a five-act blank-verse tragedy from Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was first performed in Goethe's Weimar in 1800.  Its historically based but dramatically fictionalized plot begins with Mary, Queen of Scotts [in German as Maria], in Fotheringhay, where she has been imprisoned by  Elisabeth, Queen of England. The jailer's nephew Mortimer, seeks to free Maria together with a certain Lord Leicester, while Lord Burleigh and the Queen Elisabeth maneuver for her death sentence.  In an effort a reconciliation, Lord Shrewsbury effects a meeting between the two queens--alas, a queen-sized disaster!  The plot thickens and in the tragic end, Maria is executed, Mortimer commits suicide, Lord Burleigh is banished, Lord Shrewsbury resigns, Lord Leicester exiles himself, and Elizabeth stands alone and unsupported. Gail Hart received degrees in English, German, and Comparative Literature before earning her Ph.D. in German from the University of Virginia. Since receiving her doctorate she has held positions at Yale University, Reed College, and the University of California, Irvine. She is currently Professor of German in Irvine and recently served as Director of Humanities Core Course from 2000-2007, as Associate Dean of Humanities (1994-98), and Director of the University of California's Education Abroad Programs in Germany among many other posts.  Her areas of scholarly expertise are eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature, drama, fictional prose, and the history of punishment.  She is the author of three books: Readers and their Fictions in the Novels and Novellas of Gottfried Keller (1989), Tragedy in Paradise: Family and Gender Politics in German Bourgeois Tragedy 1750-1850  (1996), and Friedrich Schiller: Crime, Aesthetic and the Poetics of Punishment (2005), and numerous articles.  Sponsored by The Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, Women's and Gender Studies, German Studies, The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities.

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