The robbers ; Wallenstein
Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-18051979
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Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was one of the most influential of all playwrights, the author of deeply moving dramas that explored human fears, desires, and ideals. Written at the age of twenty-one, 'The Robbers' was his first play. A passionate consideration of liberty, fraternity, and deep betrayal, it quickly established his fame throughout Germany and wider Europe. 'Wallenstein', produced nineteen years later, is regarded as Schiller's masterpiece: a deeply moving exploration of a flawed general's struggle to bring the Thirty Years War to an end against the will of his Emperor. Depicting the deep corruption caused by constant fighting between Protestants and Catholics, it is at once a meditation on the unbounded possible strength of humanity, and a tragic recognition of what can happen when men allow themselves to be weak.
Main title:
The robbers ; Wallenstein / Friedrich Schiller ; translated with an introduction by F.J. Lamport.
Author:
Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805, author
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 1979.
Collation:
472 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Variant title:
Cover and spine title: The robbers and Wallenstein
ISBN:
9780140443684 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
832.6832
Local class:
832.6 SCHI
Language:
EnglishGerman
BRN:
389962