Author: Friedrich SchillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Dramatic Works of Friedrich Schiller
Author: Friedrich SchillerA Companion to the Works of Friedrich Schiller
Author: Steven D. MartinsonPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1571131833
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Friedrich Schiller is not merely one of Germany's foremost poets. He is also one of the major German contributors to world literature. The undying words he gave to characters such as Marquis Posa in Don Carlos and Wilhelm Tell in the eponymous drama continue to underscore the need for human freedom. Schiller cultivated hope in the actualization of moral knowledge through aesthetic education and critical reflection, leading to his ideal of a more humane humanity. At the same time, he was fully cognizant of the problems that attend various forms of idealism. Yet for Schiller, ultimately, love remains the gravitational center of the universe and of human existence, and beyond life and death joy prevails. This collection of cutting-edge essays by some of the world's leading Schiller experts constitutes a milestone in scholarship. It includes in-depth discussions of the writer's major dramatic and poetic works, his essays on aesthetics, and his activities as historian, anthropologist, and physiologist, as well as of his relation to the ancients and of Schiller reception in 20th-century Germany. Contributors: Steven D. Martinson, Walter Hinderer, David Pugh, Otto Dann, Werner von Stransky-Stranka-Greifenfels, J. M. van der Laan, Rolf-Peter Janz, Lesley Sharpe, Norbert Oellers, Dieter Borchmeyer, Karl S. Guthke, Wulf Koepke. Steven D. Martinson is Professor of German at the University of Arizona.
Friedrich Schiller
Author: Lesley SharpePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521308178
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Lesley Sharpe assesses Schiller's development as a dramatist, poet and thinker against the background of his life.
Dramatic Works of Friedrich Schiller: Wallenstein and Wilhelm Tell
Author: Friedrich SchillerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781375540865
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Friedrich Schiller, Best Plays
Author: Friedrich SchillerPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781544924885
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 -1805) was a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788-1805), Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with the already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish works he left as sketches. This relationship and these discussions led to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism. They also worked together on Xenien, a collection of short satirical poems in which both Schiller and Goethe challenge opponents to their philosophical vision. In this book: Mary Stuart Wilhelm Tell The Robbers
The Robbers (Esprios Classics)
Author: Friedrich von SchillerPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794898026
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Friedrich Schiller
Author: Paul E. KerryPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039103072
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) absorbed the fertile ideas of the German Enlightenment, observed first-hand fresh developments in German Romanticism, and fostered one of Europe's last great Classical movements. His insights into the human condition have endured and are as valuable now as they were when he first wrote. His characterisations of human nature remain compelling and his stylistic achievements in language continue to be admired and studied. His writing spanned many genres - poetry, prose, drama, history, philosophy - and includes a rich correspondence with Goethe. In this volume, an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars examines the many sides that Schiller displays. The contributors illuminate key facets of his ideas by organising his writing around his various vocations: his medical training; work as a poet, young dramatist, and author of literary prose; his tenure as a university professor and historian; the mutually productive partnership with Goethe; his philosophical writings; and his final years as a mature playwright. His afterlife, what Schiller has meant to Germans for two centuries, is also considered.
Dramatic Works of Friedrich Schiller
Author: Friedrich SchillerFiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa
Author: Friedrich SchillerPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1783740426
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Within two years of the success of his first play Die Räuber on the German stage in 1781, Schiller wrote a drama based on a rebellion in sixteenth century Italy, its title: The Conspiracy of Fiesco at Genoa. A Republican Tragedy. At the head of the conspiracy stood Gian Luigi de’ Fieschi (1524-1547), Schiller’s Count Fiesco, a clever, courageous and charismatic figure, an epicurean and unhesitant egoist, politically ambitious, but unsure of his aims and principles. He is one of Schiller’s mysterious, protean characters who secures both our admiration and disgust. With Fiesco as tragic hero Schiller examines the complex entanglement of morality and politics in his own times that was to preoccupy him throughout his career. The play was a moderate success when performed in Mannheim in 1784; it was more popular in Berlin where, during Schiller’s lifetime, it was performed many times in a version by Carl Plümicke, which however radically altered the play’s meaning. There have been some noteworthy productions on the German stage and television, even if it has remained somewhat in the shadow of Schiller’ other works. In the English-speaking world it is all but unknown and very seldom performed. This translation aims to remedy that oversight.
Author: Friedrich Schiller