The Robbers and Wallenstein
Penguin Publishing Group · Paperback · February 28, 1980
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.
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- Who it’s for
- Two dramas set human ideals against betrayal, war, and the frailty that can undo them.
- Themes
- Liberty and betrayal, War and corruption, Human strength and weakness
- Genres
- German Plays, German Literary Collections
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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.
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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.
Ideals Under Strain
Two dramas set human ideals against betrayal, war, and the frailty that can undo them.
Come here for
- Liberty, fraternity, and betrayal in Schiller’s first play
- A flawed general’s struggle amid religious conflict and war
Expect
- Dramatic meditations on human strength and weakness
- A tragic view of what constant fighting can do
Where it sits
| German Plays | 95% |
|---|---|
| German Literary Collections | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- German Plays
- Playwriting
- Authors
- Friedrich Schiller
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- February 28, 1980
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Liberty and betrayal · War and corruption · Human strength and weakness
- Reading lane
- German Plays