Friedrich Schiller

Was treibt Menschen zum Mord? Von wahren Ereignissen inspiriert, erzählt Schiller die Lebensgeschichte Christian Wolfs, der aus Armut zum Wilddieb wird und schließlich als Mörder endet. Klassenlektüre und Textarbeit einfach gemacht: Die Reihe »Reclam XL – Text und Kontext« erfüllt alle Anforderungen an Schullektüre und Bedürfnisse des Deutschunterrichts: * Reclam XL bietet den sorgfältig edierten Werktext – seiten- und zeilengleich...

Schiller's Poems of the First Period including: Hector and Andromache, Amalia, A Funeral Fantasie, To Laura at the Harpsichord, Group from Tartarus, Friendship, Elysium, The Fugitive, To Minna, The Flowers, The Triumph of Love, To a Moralist, Count Eberhard, To the Spring. Semele, and Other Poems.

This edition collects a total of four plays-"The Robbers" and the "Wallenstein" trilogy. Together these works display Schiller's wide range. His first play, "The Robbers" (1781), propelled Schiller into the spotlight. It follows two aristocratic brothers, Franz and Karl Moor, as they vie for their father's validation. The melodrama that ensues is charged with intense emotion, making it a perfect example of the Sturm and Drang (Storm and Stress) movement...

Some critics and philosophers have looked at Schiller's works such as the ones present in "Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays" and believed that Schiller's ideas have the potential for being very useful to society. Because Schiller believed that the aesthetic function of beauty could release mankind from struggle, some have argued that his views could ultimately change the world if adopted by all people. While Schiller is not seen as one of the...

An incomplete drama based on the life of Demetrius, briefly Russian czar between 1604 and 1605. It is a reflection on the individual's responsibility in history and on the rule of Napoleon.

The play is set in Sicily, at a time when Paganism and Christianity meet, thus again outlining this theme. It is one of the most controversial works by Schiller attempting to combine antique and modern theatre.

Set in fifteenth century Switzerland this play is based on a legend characteristic of the Austrian domination period. Schiller exhibits enthusiasm for freedom and natural life in this historic play. The story unfolds on Lake Lucerne with the fateful enmity of the tyrant Gessler, Governor of the Swiss cantons, and William Tell, an obscure huntsman, trying to row to safety a peasant who is pursued by the Governor's horsemen.

Durante el reinado de Felipe II, el príncipe Carlos, heredero del mayor imperio de la historia, vive sumido en el desánimo ya que la mujer que ama está casada con otro. Conquistarla no sólo supondría romper los vínculos del matrimonio, sino también contravenir las leyes naturales, ya que ese otro es el mismísimo rey, su padre. Don Carlos es una tragedia amorosa en la que se suceden las intrigas con la sublevación de los Países Bajos como...

The special subject of the greater part of the letters and essays of Schiller contained in this volume is Aesthetics; and before passing to any remarks on his treatment of the subject it will be useful to offer a few observations on the nature of this topic, and on its treatment by the philosophical spirit of different ages. First, then, aesthetics has for its object the vast realm of the beautiful, and it may be most adequately defined as the philosophy...