6/6/2023 0 Comments Queen of Scots by John Guy“Mary was as much the victim of the pen as the executioner’s axe her enemies stole her story,” said Guy. While researching a BBC series on Mary years ago, Guy, an expert on Tudor England, discovered documents that shifted his perspective on how history remembered Mary Stuart - and the evidence implicating her in the plot against frenemy queen Elizabeth that led to her execution. Willimon sought to contextualize not only the religious and political forces hovering around Mary and Elizabeth, but also the personal challenges both queens might have faced as female leaders in a time of systemic misogyny. Willimon, in turn, looked to a leading expert on the era: John Guy, whose acclaimed 2004 book on Mary provided a valuable blueprint for telling a previously untold version of her life.
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