Friedrich von Schiller

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 …

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 …

“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, …

Intrigue and Love, sometimes Love and Intrigue, Love and Politics or Luise Miller is a five-act play, written by the German dramatist Friedrich Schiller. It was his third play and shows how cabals and their intrigue destroy the love between Ferdinand von Walter, a nobleman's son, and Luise Miller, daughter of a …

Maria Stuart is een historisch theaterstuk geschreven door de Duitse schrijver Friedrich von Schiller. De hoofdpersonages in dit werk zijn Maria Stuart, koningin van Schotland en haar nicht Elizabeth I van Engeland. Op 14 juni 1800 ging het stuk in première te Weimar, Duitsland. Schillers inspiratiebronnen waren …

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 …