Theater

April, 1972

The heartstrong and willful Mary Stuart and the calculating and autocratic Elizabeth are classic competitors. Plays, movies, books and operas have analyzed and embellished their conflict, their effect on history and history's effect on them. (See this month's review of the film Mary, Queen of Scots.) Vivat! Vivat Regina!, Robert Bolt's new drama about the titanic cousins is large-canvased, with a chronological and geographical sweep that perhaps would be more fitting on film. From France to Scot...