This play begins with a non-historical figure, the nurse Hannah Kennedy, having an argument with Sir Amias Paulet over breaking into private cabinets, where he finds jewels and a diadem studded with the fleur-de-lis.
This play begins with a non-historical figure, the nurse Hannah Kennedy, having an argument with Sir Amias Paulet over breaking into private cabinets, where he finds jewels and a diadem studded with the fleur-de-lis. In a controversial scene at the end, the main character kneels and confesses to Sir Andrew Melville who has reportedly been consecrated by the Pope. The Earl of Leicester is given a letter as promised, but Mortimer becomes convinced that he must concoct a plot himself, which fails and he commits suicide. Made into an opera by Donizetti, the fate of the title character in this play is sealed when Davison hands over the death warrant to Lord Burleigh. FTP, name this ►play which premiered in 1800, written by Friedrich Schiller and based upon the tragic life of a certain queen of Scotland. 
This play begins with a non-historical figure, the nurse Hannah Kennedy, having an argument with Sir Amias Paulet over breaking into private cabinets, where he finds jewels and a diadem studded with the fleur-de-lis.
Maria Stuart or Mary Stuart  