
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist. Schiller wrote many philosophical papers on ethics and aesthetics. He developed the concept of the Schöne Seele (beautiful soul), a human being whose emotions have been educated by his reason, so that Pflicht …

Mary Stuart è una tragedia di Friedrich Schiller che rappresenta gli ultimi giorni di Maria, regina di Scozia. La tragedia consiste in cinque atti, ognuno diviso in diverse scene. La tragedia è stata rappresentata per la prima volta a Weimar, in Germania il 14 giugno 1800. È stata fonte di ispirazione per l'opera …

Intrigo e amore. Una tragedia borghese è un'opera drammatica scritta da Friedrich Schiller nel 1783. L'opera rappresenta uno dei più chiari esempi dello Sturm und Drang e risente dell'influsso della rivoluzione del teatro operata da Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.

“Magnificent . . . leaves no doubt that you are watching a classic. . . . In Mike Poulton’s fleet and vivid translation . . . the story of a tyrannical King Philip II of Spain and his abused, love-tormented son, Don Carlos, has all the deftly plotted twists and turns of a thriller. You lean forward in your seat, …

When Schiller completed Wilhelm Tell as a "New Year's Gift for 1805" he foretold that it would cause a stir. He was right. In the midst of Great Power politics a play which drew substance from one of the fourteenth-century liberation movements proved both attractive and inflammatory. Since then the work as become …

A classic of 18th-century thought, Schiller's treatise on the role of art in society ranks among German philosophy’s most profound works. An important contribution to the history of ideas, it employs a political analysis of contemporary society — and of the French Revolution, in particular — to define the relationship …

La Pulzella d'Orléans o La vergine d'Orléans è un dramma in cinque atti di Friedrich Schiller, scritto nel 1801 a Lipsia. La trama ripercorre la vita di Giovanna d'Arco. Nel prologo sono introdotti i protagonisti; nei cinque atti sono presentati altrettanti momenti salienti della vita della Pulzella. Nel finale, …