Friedrich Schiller

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 …

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 …