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Five Plays: The Robbers / Passion and Politics / Don Carlos / Mary Stuart / Joan of Arc
Published together in one volume, the four Schiller plays 'Don Carlos', 'The Robbers', 'Joan of Arc', 'Love and Intrigue' that inspired Verdi's operas together with 'Mary Stuart'.
733 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1998
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Friedrich Schiller
5,434 books866 followersPeople 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedri...
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedri...
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September 30, 2013
Mary Stuart audio recording.
I found the pace a little slow. This drama begins when both characters are already adults and the notorious claims about how Mary did behave can only be told and not shown or experienced. I recall that a film of Elizabeth's life of a similar duration ranged from childhood to the end of her reign, with a concomitantly greater sense of dramatic motion and character development.
I found the pace a little slow. This drama begins when both characters are already adults and the notorious claims about how Mary did behave can only be told and not shown or experienced. I recall that a film of Elizabeth's life of a similar duration ranged from childhood to the end of her reign, with a concomitantly greater sense of dramatic motion and character development.
February 12, 2008
His version of Joan of Arc made me cry, cry, cry.
February 26, 2020
Joan of Arc *** – This is not good. It’s okay, but it lacks the ambiguity and doubt that makes the Joan of Arc story so powerful. Anouilh’s great The Lark (especially the excellent Hellman translation/edit) and Shaw’s wonderful St. Joan feed on the complexity of Joan’s deeds and reputation to create complex works.
In Schiller, Joan’s role as a messenger from god is hardly questioned. She is enthusiastically accepted by Charles and the French – with hardly a doubt. Several members of the court, in fact, fall in love with Joan.
And oddly, Schiller ignores the one fact that almost everyone knows about Joan – her burning at the stake. His Joan dies in battle.
Maria Stuart *** (06/06)
In Schiller, Joan’s role as a messenger from god is hardly questioned. She is enthusiastically accepted by Charles and the French – with hardly a doubt. Several members of the court, in fact, fall in love with Joan.
And oddly, Schiller ignores the one fact that almost everyone knows about Joan – her burning at the stake. His Joan dies in battle.
Maria Stuart *** (06/06)
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