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In real life, Mary and Elizabeth never met face to face—but that would make a pretty dull play, so Schiller brings the two together at Fotheringay Castle on a rainy night in February 1587.

First, Elizabeth felt how the “baby leaped in her womb” as he “recognized” Mary’s embryo as the Holy One. This incident foretells what happens when, as adults, John the Baptist ...