The Robbers and Wallenstein

Author

Friedrich Schiller

Original Works

The Robbers·Wallenstein (Trilogy of Plays)

Translator

F. J. Lamport

Format

Collection / Anthology

Language

English

Year

1979

Publisher

Penguin

Country

United Kingdom

Pages

472

ISBN

9780140443684

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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. 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.— Google Books