Features the play Robbers that presents a passionate consideration of liberty, fraternity and deep betrayal; and Wallenstein that explores a flawed general's struggle to bring the Thirty Years War to an end against the will of his Emperor.
Features the play Robbers that presents a passionate consideration of liberty, fraternity and deep betrayal; and Wallenstein that explores a flawed ge...
Schiller was profoundly shaken by the failure of the French Revolution and devoted many of his greatest works to debating the true nature of freedom. Here, in scenes alternating between the palace of Westminster and the prison at Fotheringhay, he shows us a captive heroine rising above her suffering to gain in insight and spiritual depth. The deceitful and indecisive Elizabeth, trapped by the cruel demands of Realpolitik, can achieve worldly victory only at a terrible moral cost.
Schiller's early plays are full of violent actions and language, but he later adopted a far more restrained and...
Schiller was profoundly shaken by the failure of the French Revolution and devoted many of his greatest works to debating the true nature of freedom. ...
Essential reading. New Society. A classic of eighteenth-century thought, Friedrich Schiller s treatise on the role of art in society ranks among German philosophy s most profound works. In addition to its importance to the history of ideas, this 1795 essay remains relevant to our own time. Beginning with a political analysis of contemporary society in particular, the French Revolution and its failure to implement universal freedom Schiller observes that people cannot transcend their circumstances without education. He conceives of art as the vehicle of education, one that can...
Essential reading. New Society. A classic of eighteenth-century thought, Friedrich Schiller s treatise on the role of art in society ranks a...
Like Mary Stuart herself and the legends which pursued her to her death, Schiller's play continues to captivate the modern imagination nearly two centuries later.
Like Mary Stuart herself and the legends which pursued her to her death, Schiller's play continues to captivate the modern imagination nearly two cent...
This completely new edition reproduces the original unexpurgated 'Schauspiel', and provides and Introdution and Notes fully geared to the needs of modern students.
This completely new edition reproduces the original unexpurgated 'Schauspiel', and provides and Introdution and Notes fully geared to the nee...
Play from Schiller, translated into English for the stage by Robert David MacDonald. The plot revolves around the conflict between two aristocratic brothers, Karl and Franz Moor. The charismatic but rebellious student Karl is deeply loved by his father.
Play from Schiller, translated into English for the stage by Robert David MacDonald. The plot revolves around the conflict between two aristocratic br...
'Scotland may be a savage nation, Lady, but the English wash their hands in blood.'
Mary Stuart tells the story of the personal struggle between two extraordinary women - one French, one English - both captive to the demands of sovereignty and both caught in a tumult of political and religious intrigue.
Which of them is the rightful Queen of England - Mary Stuart or Elizabeth Tudor?
Mary Stuart, written in 1800 by Friedrich Schiller, is presented in this new version by Mike Poulton following his Don Carlos for Sheffield/West End. The play was...
'Scotland may be a savage nation, Lady, but the English wash their hands in blood.'
