Friedrich Schiller

"Includes the plays Joan of Arc and William Tell Two plays about historical characters whose fame has also raised them to the level of myth. In Joan of Arc (1801), Schiller allows his heroine a more glorious death than her historical execution at the stake, and imbues her with more passion, and compassion, than is usually ascribed to the actual Joan. In William Tell (1805), often regarded as his greatest play, Schiller creates a vivid sense of time and place - medieval Switzerland - and in his troubled hero, the accidental revolutionary Tell, create a complex and fascinating figure. One of the great figures in German literature, Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was in some ways the most significant playwright of his day, numbering among his devotees Coleridge and Carlyle. His plays are known for their originality of form, vivid stage imagery and powerful language, faithfully rendered in Robert David MacDonald's acclaimed translations. "

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"Includes the plays Don Carlos and Mary Stuart Major historical upheavals of the Sixteenth Century illuminate Schiller's increasingly troubled reaction to the present in these two plays. The huge epic Don Carlos (1787), a 'play expressing a view of life', marries the ideological battle between Philip II of Spain and his son Don Carlos to a gripping narrative. In Mary Stuart (1800), Schiller, sickened by the excesses of a revolution he had once supported, brings together two monarchs - the English Elizabeth Tudor and the Scottish Mary Stuart, cousins who in reality never met - when Mary, falsely accused of conspiracy, finds herself at Elizabeth's mercy."

Includes the plays The Robbers and Passion and Politics Two plays concerned with tyranny and freedom. Schiller's first play, The Robbers (1781), was written in great secrecy under the prison like conditions of Württenberg's Karlsschule: Karl, the son of a count, is disinherited through the machinations of his brother Franz, and, turning his back on a social order he finds unjust and corrupt, becomes the leader of a band of robbers. In Passion and Politics (1784), a 'bourgeoise tragedy', the love between Louise, a musician's daughter, and Ferdinand, a politician's son, crosses an unbridgeable social divide. One of the great figures in German literature, Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was one of the most significant playwright of his day, numbering among his devotees Coleridge and Carlyle. His plays are known for their originality of form, vivid stage imagery and powerful language, faithfully rendered in Robert David MacDonald's acclaimed translations.

Schiller's play of 1800 pits Mary Queen of Scots against her rival Elizabeth of England. The meeting never happened, but Goethe claimed 'It will be good to see those whores alongside each other.' Schiller's Mary redeems her youthful crimes through an ordeal that lifts her into the realms of spiritual serenity, while Elizabeth descends deeper into rage, revenge and deception. Peter Oswald's version, mixing poetry and prose, opened at the Donmar Warehouse in London’s West End in July 2005.

Schiller's great tragedy transformed by Mike Poulton into an intense and gripping historical thriller that was a huge hit in the West End starring Derek Jacobi. Don Carlos is passionately in love with Elizabeth, a French princess. Carlos' tyrannical father, King Philip II, decides to marry Elizabeth himself. The young prince's hatred of his father knows no bounds. He enlists his friend, the Marquis of Posa, to act as go-between, but Posa decides to convert Carlos and Elizabeth's passion into a full-scale rebellion against Philip's oppressive regime. Mike Poulton's version of Friedrich Schiller's play Don Carlos was first staged at the Crucible, Sheffield, in October 2004. It transferred to the Gielgud Theatre in the West End in February 2005.

"Vor seinem Löwengarten, das Kampfspiel zu erwarten, saß König Franz ..." Und bald schon balgen sich Leoparden, Löwen und Tiger vor dem erlauchten Publikum um die Wette. Plötzlich aber fällt Fräulein Kunigundes Handschuh zwischen die hungrigen Katzen. Eine willkommene Gelegenheit für die hochmütige Dame, ihren Herzensritter auf die Probe zu stellen: Zum Beweis seiner Liebe soll er in die sprichwörtliche Höhle des Löwen hinabsteigen und ihr den Handschuh zurückbringen ... Der 1. Band der neuen Reihe "Poesie für Kinder" bietet ein unvergessliches Stück deutscher Dichtung - witzig, spannend und lehrreich zugleich, mit viel Schwung und Fantasie ins Bild gesetzt von Jacky Gleich.

"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 liberate individuals from the constraints and excesses of either pure nature or pure mind. Through aesthetic experience, he asserts, people can reconcile the inner antagonism between sense and intellect, nature and reason. Schiller's proposal of art as fundamental to the development of society and the individual is an enduringly influential concept, and this volume offers his philosophy's clearest, most vital expression.

Der neue "Hanser-Schiller" in fünf Bänden. Außer der bewährten und zuverlässigen Texte bietet die Ausgabe eine Kommentierung, die die jüngsten germanistischen und historischen Erkenntnisse textbezogen zugänglich macht und zugleich lesbar ist. Es ist an der Zeit, Schiller neu zu lesen: diese Ausgabe lädt dazu ein.

Der neue "Hanser-Schiller" in fünf Bänden. Außer der bewährten und zuverlässigen Texte bietet die Ausgabe eine Kommentierung, die die jüngsten germanistischen und historischen Erkenntnisse textbezogen zugänglich macht und zugleich lesbar ist. Es ist an der Zeit, Schiller neu zu lesen: diese Ausgabe lädt dazu ein.

Die Schweiz im 13. Jahrhundert. Mitten in dem von feindlichen Truppen besetzten Land herrscht der tyrannische Landvogt Gessler, der zu immer grausameren Mitteln greift, um den Widerstand der Bevölkerung zu brechen. Als er Wilhelm Tell, einen besonders kühnen Bogenschützen, zu einer ungeheuerlichen Tat zwingt, beschließt dieser, dem teuflischen Treiben ein Ende zu setzen. Schillers großer Klassiker über den schweizerischen Freiheitskampf liest sich wie eine packende Abenteuergeschichte - vom sagenumwobenen Rütlischwur über Tells spektakulären Apfelschuss bis hin zum Höhepunkt in der hohlen Gasse. Ein faszinierendes Stück Weltliteratur, mit viel Gespür fürs Original nacherzählt von Barbara Kindermann und grandios ins Bild gesetzt von dem bekannten Buchkünstler Klaus Ensikat.