Schillers klassische Dramen gehören zu jenen Texten der deutschen Literaturgeschichte, um die sich Mythen von Unnahbarkeit einerseits, von "Volksnähe" andererseits ranken. Der Band, ein Kernstück der besten Schiller-Ausgabe unserer Zeit, bietet zuverlässige Texte und zu jedem Stück kompakte Information über Entstehung, Quellen, Wirkung, Deutung nebst umfangreichen Kommentaren zu einzelnen Stellen.
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People best know long didactic poems and historical plays, such as Don Carlos (1787) and William Tell (1804), of leading romanticist German poet, dramatist, and historian Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.
This philosopher and dramatist struck up a productive if complicated friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe during the last eighteen years of his life and encouraged Goethe to finish works that he left merely as sketches; they greatly discussed issues concerning aesthetics and thus gave way to a period, now referred to as classicism of Weimar. They also worked together on Die Xenien (The Xenies), a collection of short but harsh satires that verbally attacked perceived enemies of their aesthetic agenda.