Vivat! Vivat Regina!: A Play in Two Acts

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Random House, 1971 - Drama - 96 pages
Records the parallel fortunes of Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots.

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Vivat! Vivat Regina!: A Play
Robert Bolt
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2ND LADY actors Adrian Reynolds Archie Duncan audience BISHOP BREWER Brian Hawksley Catholic child Church Claud CLERIC Councillor David Gwillim DAVID RIZZIO Doctor Boze Edward Atienza ELIZABETH Elizabethan England English exits face Fanfare Father fool gentleman God's death goes hand hard hear heart Heaven husband JAILERS King Kirk kisses laugh letter Light change live looks at CECIL Lord Bothwell Lord Darnley Lord Mor Lord Morton Majesty marriage marry MARY enters Mary Stuart Master Cecil Master Knox Master Walsingham murder never Oh Madam ORMISTON play playwright priest PRISONER proof pulpit QUADRA Queen of Scots RICHARD KAYNE rises ROBERT BOLT Robert Dudley Robin RUTHVEN Scotland SERVANTS significance Signor Rizzio sits smile soul Spain Spanish speak stage stares takes TALA tell Tennessee Williams Theatre theatrical thing thought throne turns verra voice woman Yes Your Grace

About the author (1971)

Born in Manchester, England, where he attended the university, Robert Bolt was teaching school in 1957 when his play Flowering Cherry, with Ralph Richardson in the title role, was staged in London. The success of the play persuaded Bolt to devote himself to the theater. The Tiger and the Horse (1960) which, like its predecessor, concerns the paradoxes of idealism and detachment, appeared three years later. In the meanwhile, Bolt had written for BBC radio the short play about Sir Thomas More, which he was to expand into his international triumph, A Man for All Seasons (1960). The play brought Bolt the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1962, and, for the screenplay, an Academy Award. Bolt wrote a series of screenplays for David Lean including Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and Ryan's Daughter (1970), in which personal melodrama is again played out against romanticized history. The stage work Vivat! Vivat Regina! (1970) confronts Queen Elizabeth's rigidity with the femininity of Mary of Scotland. State of Revolution (1977), written for the National Theatre, is a portrait of Lenin as a sensitive leader imprisoned in his ideals. Some of his other works include The Bounty, The Mission, A Man For All Seasons, and Without Warning: The James Brady Story. He died at age 70, in Petersfield, Hampshire, England, following a long illness.

Bibliographic information

TitleVivat! Vivat Regina!: A Play in Two Acts
French's acting edition
AuthorRobert Bolt
Editionrevised
PublisherRandom House, 1971
ISBN0435231049, 9780435231040
Length96 pages
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