Editing Babington Plot (section)

==In literature==
''[[Mary Stuart (Schiller play)|Mary Stuart]]'' ({{langx|de|link=no|Maria Stuart}}), a dramatised version of the last days of [[Mary, Queen of Scots]], including the Babington Plot, was written by [[Friedrich Schiller]] and performed in [[Weimar]], Germany, in 1800. This in turn formed the basis for ''[[Maria Stuarda]]'', an opera by [[Donizetti]], in 1835. Although the Babington Plot occurs before the events of the opera, and is only referenced twice during the opera, the second such occasion being Mary admitting her own part in it in private to her confessor (a role taken by Lord Talbot in the opera, although not in real life).

The story of the Babington Plot is dramatised in the novel ''Conies in the Hay'' by [[Jane Lane (author)|Jane Lane]] ({{ISBN|0-7551-0835-3}}), and features prominently in [[Anthony Burgess]]'s ''[[A Dead Man in Deptford]]''. A fictional account is given in the ''My Story'' book series, ''The Queen's Spies'' (retitled ''To Kill A Queen'' 2008) told in diary format by a fictional Elizabethan girl, Kitty.
The Babington plot forms the historical background{{snd}}and provides much of the intrigue{{snd}}for ''Holy Spy'', the 7th in the historical detective series by Rory Clements, featuring John Shakespeare, an intelligencer for [[Francis Walsingham|Walsingham]] and elder brother of the more famous [[William Shakespeare|Will]].

The simplified version of the Babington plot is also the subject of the children's or Young Adult novel ''A Traveller in Time'' (1939), by [[Alison Uttley]], who grew up near the Babington family home in Derbyshire. A young modern girl finds that she slips back to the time shortly before the Plot is about to be implemented. This was later made into a BBC TV mini-series in 1978, with small changes to the original novel.

The Babington Plot is also dramatized in the 2017 [[Ken Follett]] novel ''[[A Column of Fire]]'', in Jacopo della Quercia's 2015 novel ''License to Quill'', and in [[SJ Parris]]'s 2020 novel ''[[Execution]]'', the latest of her novels featuring [[Giordano Bruno]] as protagonist.

The Babington Plot is also dramatized in the 2024 T.S. Milbourne novel "Gilbert Gifford".
The novel focuses on Gilbert Gifford, the double agent in the Babington Plot, and portrays his complicated position through the dramatization of the people involved in the plot.

The plot figures prominently in the first chapter of ''[[The Code Book]]'', a survey of the history of cryptography written by [[Simon Singh]] and published in 1999.