| The Robbers and Wallenstein Contributor(s): Schiller, Friedrich (Author), Lamport, F. J. (Translator), Lamport, F. J. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0140443681 ISBN-13: 9780140443684 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1980 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | Ancient & Classical - Drama | European - German |
| Dewey: 832.6 |
| LCCN: 81467527 |
| Series: Penguin Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.13" H x 5.14" W x 7.76" (0.80 lbs) 480 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was one of the most influential of all playwrights, the author of deeply moving dramas that explored human fears, desires and ideals. Written at the age of twenty-one, The Robbers was his first play. A passionate consideration of liberty, fraternity and deep betrayal, it quickly established his fame throughout Germany and wider Europe. Wallenstein, produced nineteen years later, is regarded as Schiller's masterpiece: a deeply moving exploration of a flawed general's struggle to bring the Thirty Years War to an end against the will of his Emperor. Depicting the deep corruption caused by constant fighting between Protestants and Catholics, it is at once a meditation on the unbounded possible strength of humanity, and a tragic recognition of what can happen when men allow themselves to be weak. |