Starring Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden; directed by Josie Rourke; 123 minutes; R for some violence and sexuality. Did you find “The Favourite” too weird, too raunchy, too ... too? Perhaps ...

Maybe it's the recent royal wedding or the impending specter of Brexit, but for some reason, historical biopics about the British monarchy are all the rage at the moment. From Netflix's series The ...

Did you find "The Favourite" just too weird, too raunchy, too ... too? Perhaps "Mary Queen of Scots" will be more your cup. The story of the titular Titian-haired monarch — who returned to her native ...

At the New York premiere of Mary Queen of Scots, Saoirse Ronan and screenwriter Beau Willimon described how the film corrects misconceptions about Queen Mary of Scotland and Queen Elizabeth I of ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Two queens, cousins even, find their feminist friendship undone by the machinations of the men around them. It’s a pretty concept, but the plot of Mary Queen of Scots — ...

“Mary, Queen of Scots,” a new commission by Scottish Ballet, puts both her historical tale and contemporary views in motion. By Roslyn Sulcas Anna Groundwater, a curator at National Museums Scotland, ...

It is sometimes said that historians reveal as much about their own era as they do about the eras they scrutinize. Critic Bob Mondello says that is also true of historical movies, including the new ...

Note: Contains spoilers for Mary Queen of Scots – and for 16th-century history. Mary Queen of Scots covers more than two decades of British history in just under two hours, so it's perhaps not a ...

Posters for the film Mary Queen of Scots label Mary Stuart "Born to Fight," and Elizabeth I "Born to Power." But this rivalry is so famous we already know those taglines are applied to the wrong ...

As biographer Antonia Fraser explains, Mary’s story is one of “murder, sex, pathos, religion and unsuitable lovers" Liam Daniel/Focus Features Mary, Queen of Scots, towered over her contemporaries in ...

Rosalind Smith receives funding from the Australian Research Council for a Discovery Project on early modern women and the poetry of complaint. The project considers poetry by Mary Queen of Scots and ...