Abstract:This essay advances a consideration of two foreign history plays that look back on the execution of Mary Stuart in 1587. Examining Juan Bautista Diamante's La reina María Estuarda (1660) and José de Cañizares's Lo que va de cetro a cetro y crueldad de Inglaterra (circa 1713–18), it analyzes the way in which geographical and temporal distance between an event depicted on stage and the nation in which it is presented provided Spanish playwrights with the unique opportunity not only to comment upon a rival nation's past but also to employ foreign history in the consideration of domestic affairs. In doing so, this article also contemplates the place that England occupied in the changing conceptions of Spain's national and imperial identities in a period marked by anxieties about dynastic succession and waning imperial power.

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阿尔比恩的镜子：伊丽莎白一世和玛丽·斯图亚特的西班牙戏剧重新想象

摘要：本文对两部回顾 1587 年处决玛丽·斯图亚特的外国历史剧进行了思考。考察胡安·包蒂斯塔·迪亚曼特 (Juan Bautista Diamante) 的《玛丽亚·埃斯图尔达 (La reina María Estuarda) (1660) 和何塞·德·卡尼萨雷斯 (José de Cañizares) 的英格兰从权杖到权杖和残忍的事大约 1713-18 年），它分析了舞台上描绘的事件与呈现它的国家之间的地理和时间距离的方式，为西班牙剧作家提供了独特的机会，不仅可以评论敌对国家的过去，而且外交史考虑内政。在这样做的过程中，本文还思考了在以王朝继承和皇权衰落为标志的时期，英国在西班牙民族和帝国身份观念的变化中占据的位置。