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 …
Marie Stuart est une pièce de théâtre de Friedrich von Schiller parue en 1800. Elle dépeint les derniers jours de Marie d'Écosse. Publiée le 14 juin 1800 à Weimar, elle a notamment servi de base pour l'opéra de Gaetano Donizetti Maria Stuarda.
Cabale et Amour est une pièce de théâtre en cinq actes de Friedrich von Schiller, jouée pour la première fois le 13 avril 1784 à Francfort-sur-le-Main. Représentative du drame bourgeois et du Sturm und Drang, la pièce met en scène une histoire d'amour tragique entre le noble Ferdinand von Walter et Louise Miller, …
“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 …