Schiller
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Schiller
（Past masters）
Oxford University Press, 1991
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-116) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) ranks with Goethe as one of the greatest dramatists and poets of the classical age of German literature. Writing on history, aesthetics, and philosophy, he influenced and was influenced by the English Romantics, and his lyrical poem "Ode to Joy" was set to music by Beethoven in his Ninth Symphony. His plays, including "The Robbers", "Maria Stuart", and "Wilhelm Tell", contributed to his reputation as a stern moralist, but T.J. Reed's introduction to Schiller's works also reveal a passionate, subtle, and witty side that has been too often neglected.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Absolutism and revolt: an education
- "commerce of mind and body"
- theatrical sensation
- flight
- intrigues. Part 2 Hope in history: castles in Spain
- a guiding thread. Part 3 Two crises: the grand disillusion
- "this man , this Goethe". Part 4 Defeat and victory: "how it really was"
- freedom in and freedom from. Part 5 Real and ideal: lifetime
- legacy.
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