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Book The Piccolomini

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  • Author : Friedrich Schiller
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1903
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 426 pages

Download or read book The Piccolomini written by Friedrich Schiller and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wallenstein

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  • Author : Friedrich Schiller
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1886
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 151 pages

Download or read book Wallenstein written by Friedrich Schiller and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wallenstein s Camp

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  • Author : Friedrich Schiller
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2019-11-25
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 68 pages

Download or read book Wallenstein s Camp written by Friedrich Schiller and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wallenstein's Camp: A Play" by Friedrich Schiller reflects popular opinion, particularly that of the soldiers in Wallenstein's camp. They are enthusiastic about their commander, who to all appearances has managed to bring together mercenaries from a wide variety of locations. They praise the great freedom he allows them—to plunder, for instance—whenever they are not engaged in fighting, and his efforts on their behalf in negotiations with the Holy Roman Emperor, of whom some of the troops are critical. They also praise the war for improving their own lives despite its toll on the civilian population. Still, we hear a peasant complain that the troops steal from him, and a monk criticize their wicked life. At the end of this part, the soldiers find out that the emperor intends to place a section of the army under the command of Spanish Habsburgs. Unhappy, they agree to ask Max Piccolomini, one of their commanders, to urge Wallenstein not to fulfill the emperor's wishes.

Book The Death of Wallenstein

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  • Author : Friedrich Schiller
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1886
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 172 pages

Download or read book The Death of Wallenstein written by Friedrich Schiller and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Death of Wallenstein

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  • Author : Frederich Schiller
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
  • Release : 2012-09-02
  • ISBN : 9781479238996
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book Death of Wallenstein written by Frederich Schiller and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-09-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallenstein is the popular designation for a trilogy of dramas by German author Friedrich Schiller. It consists of the plays Wallenstein's Camp (Wallensteins Lager) with a lengthy prologue, The Piccolomini (Die Piccolomini), and Wallenstein's Death (Wallensteins Tod). Schiller himself also structured the trilogy into two parts, with Wallenstein I including Wallenstein's Camp and The Piccolomini, and Wallenstein II consisting of Wallenstein's Death. He completed the trilogy in 1799. In this drama Schiller addresses the decline of the famous general Albrecht von Wallenstein, basing it loosely on actual historical events during the Thirty Years' War. Wallenstein fails at the height of his power as successful commander-in-chief of the imperial army when he begins to rebel against his emperor, Ferdinand II. The action is set some 16 years after the start of the war, in the winter of 1633/1634 and begins in the Bohemian city of Pilsen, where Wallenstein is based with his troops. For the second and third acts of the third play the action moves to Eger, where Wallenstein has fled and where he was assassinated on 26 February 1634. In the last part of the Wallenstein trilogy the conflict anticipated in the second play erupts and leads to a tragic conclusion. Having learned that the negotiators he has sent to bargain with the Swedes have been intercepted by imperial troops, Wallenstein supposes that the emperor now has damning evidence of his treason. After some hesitation and intense pressure exerted by Illo, Terzky and especially the latter's spouse, Countess Terzky, Wallenstein decides to burn his bridges: he will enter into official alliance with the Swedes. But there is opposition. Octavio Piccolomini, the emperor's spy, manages to convince almost all the important leaders in Wallenstein's army--especially Butler--to abandon him. Convinced that Wallenstein has thwarted his ambitions, Butler hangs on for the sake of revenge. Max Piccolomini, for his part, is torn between his loyalty to the emperor, his admiration for Wallenstein, and his love for Thekla. He finally decides to leave Wallenstein, hoping there will be no hard feelings, but for the prince it's the final straw. He then flees with his remaining supporters to Eger; Max Piccolomini throws himself into a doomed battle with the Swedes, which costs him his life. When Thekla learns of this, she secretly sets out for his grave, there to die. Wallenstein also grieves about the loss of Max Piccolomini, but believes that the fates have taken him away in compensation for future good fortune. In the night, Butler's henchmen, Macdonald and Deveroux, murder Illo and Terzky during a banquet, then kill Wallenstein himself in his bedroom. The drama ends with a final dialogue between Octavio and his chief antagonist, Countess Terzky, who dies of the poison she has taken. Finally, Octavio hears that the emperor, in gratitude, has promoted him to the rank of prince.

Book Schiller s Early Dramas

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  • Author : Friedrich Schiller
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2017-11-06
  • ISBN : 9780260418296
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book Schiller s Early Dramas written by Friedrich Schiller and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Schiller's Early Dramas: Love and Intrigue; Wallenstein's C& The Piccolomini; Death of Wallenstein Mrs. MILL. You should only read the beautiful billy doux which the baron writes to your daughter. Gracious me! Why it's as clear as the sun at noonday that he loves her purely for her virtuous sou]. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book The Death of Wallenstein

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  • Author : Friedrich Schiller
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1800
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book The Death of Wallenstein written by Friedrich Schiller and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wallenstein

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  • Author : Friedrich Schiller
  • Publisher : Continuum
  • Release : 1960
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Wallenstein written by Friedrich Schiller and published by Continuum. This book was released on 1960 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallenstein is the popular designation of a trilogy of dramas by German author Friedrich Schiller. It consists of the plays Wallenstein's Camp (Wallensteins Lager), a lengthy prologue, The Piccolomini (Die Piccolomini), and Wallenstein's Death (Wallensteins Tod). Schiller himself also structured the trilogy into two parts, with Wallenstein I including Wallenstein's Camp and The Piccolomini, and Wallenstein II consisting of Wallenstein's Death. He completed the trilogy in 1799. In this drama, Schiller addresses the decline of the famous general Albrecht von Wallenstein, basing it loosely on actual historical events during the Thirty Years' War. Wallenstein fails at the height of his power as successful commander-in-chief of the imperial army when he begins to rebel against his emperor, Ferdinand II. The action is set some 16 years after the start of the war, in the winter of 1633/1634, and begins in the Bohemian city of Pilsen, where Wallenstein is based with his troops. In the second and third acts of the third play the action moves to Eger, where Wallenstein has fled and where he was assassinated on 26 February 1634.

Book Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston

Download or read book Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Schiller s Wallenstein  Maria Stuart  and Die Jungfrau Von Orleans

Download or read book Schiller s Wallenstein Maria Stuart and Die Jungfrau Von Orleans written by Kathy Jo Saranpa and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2002 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katherine Saranpa provides an overview of Schiller reception in the context of radical shifts in historical thought. The juxtaposition of three strands, which Saranpa covers, will interest scholars of German literature.

Book Performing Unification

Download or read book Performing Unification written by Matt Cornish and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the moment after the fall of the Berlin Wall, important German theater artists have created plays and productions about unification. Some have challenged how German history is written, while others opposed the very act of storytelling. Performing Unification examines how directors, playwrights, and theater groups including Heiner Müller, Frank Castorf, and Rimini Protokoll have represented and misrepresented the past, confronting their nation’s history and collective identity. Matt Cornish surveys German-language history plays from the Baroque period through the documentary theater movement of the 1960s to show how German identity has always been contested, then turns to performances of unification after 1989. Cornish argues that theater, in its structures and its live gestures, on pages, stages, and streets, helps us to understand the past and its effect on us, our relationships with others in our communities, and our futures. Engaging with theater theory from Aristotle through Bertolt Brecht and Hans-Thies Lehmann’s “postdramatic” theater, and with theories of history from Hegel to Walter Benjamin and Hayden White, Performing Unification demonstrates that historiography and dramaturgy are intertwined.

Book The Death of Wallenstein

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  • Author : Friedrich Schiller
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-11-23
  • ISBN : 9781979970839
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book The Death of Wallenstein written by Friedrich Schiller and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallenstein is the popular designation for a trilogy of dramas by German author Friedrich Schiller. It consists of the plays Wallenstein's Camp (Wallensteins Lager), a lengthy prologue, The Piccolomini (Die Piccolomini), and Wallenstein's Death (Wallensteins Tod). Schiller himself also structured the trilogy into two parts, with Wallenstein I including Wallenstein's Camp and The Piccolomini, and Wallenstein II consisting of Wallenstein's Death. He completed the trilogy in 1799. In this drama Schiller addresses the decline of the famous general Albrecht von Wallenstein, basing it loosely on actual historical events during the Thirty Years' War. Wallenstein fails at the height of his power as successful commander-in-chief of the imperial army when he begins to rebel against his emperor, Ferdinand II. The action is set some 16 years after the start of the war, in the winter of 1633/1634 and begins in the Bohemian city of Pilsen, where Wallenstein is based with his troops. For the second and third acts of the third play the action moves to Eger, where Wallenstein has fled and where he was assassinated on 26 February 1634.

Book Textual Transformations

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  • Author : Tessa Whitehouse
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2020-01-12
  • ISBN : 019880881X
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book Textual Transformations written by Tessa Whitehouse and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-12 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early modern books were not stable or settled outputs of the press but dynamic shape-changers, subject to reworking, re-presentation, revision, and reinterpretation. Their history is often the history of multiple, sometimes competing, agencies as their texts were re-packaged, redirected, and transformed in ways that their original authors might hardly recognize. Processes of editing, revision, redaction, selection, abridgement, glossing, disputation, translation, and posthumous publication resulted in a textual elasticity and mobility that could dissolve distinctions between text and paratexts, textuality and intertextuality, manuscript and print, author and reader or editor, such that title and author's name are no longer sufficient pointers to a book's identity or contents. This collection brings together original essays by an international team of eminent scholars in the field of book history that explore these various kinds of textual inconstancy and variability. The essays are alive to the impact of commercial and technological aspects of book production and distribution (discussing, for example, the career of the pre-eminent bookseller John Nourse, the market appeal of abridgements, and the financial incentives to posthumous publication), but their interest is also in the many additional forms of agency that shaped texts and their meanings as books were repurposed to articulate, and respond to, a variety of cultural and individual needs. They engage with early modern religious, political, philosophical, and scholarly trends and debates as they discuss a wide range of genres and kinds of publication including fictional and non-fictional prose, verse miscellanies, abridgements, sermons, religious controversy, and of authors including Lucy Hutchinson, Richard Baxter, John Dryden, Thomas Burnet, John Tillotson, Henry Maundrell, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, John Wesley, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The result is a richly diverse collection that demonstrates the embeddedness of the book trade in the cultural dynamics of early modernity.

Book From Goethe to Gundolf

Download or read book From Goethe to Gundolf written by Roger Paulin and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin’s groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty years. The work represents his major research interests of Romanticism and the reception of Shakespeare in Germany, but also explores a broader range of themes, from poetry and the public memorialization of poets to fairy stories - all meticulously researched, yet highly accessible. As a comprehensive examination of German literary history in the period 1700-1900, the collection not only includes accounts of the lives and work of Goethe, Schiller, the Schlegels, and Gundolf (amongst others), serving to nuance our understanding of these figures in history, but also considers diverse (and often underexplored) topics, from academic freedom to the rise of travel literature. The essays have been reformulated, corrected, and updated to add references to recent works. However, the core foundations of the originals remain, and just as when they were first published, the value of these essays – to researchers, students, and all those who are interested in German literary history – cannot be overstated.

Book Historical Dictionary of German Literature to 1945

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of German Literature to 1945 written by William Grange and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-12-18 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of this period in German literature is told through a detailed chronology, an introductory essay, a comprehensive bibliography, and over 200 cross-referenced dictionary entries on poetry, novels, historical narrative, philosophical musings, drama, and the exceptional writers who emerged and shaped German literature over the centuries.

Book The Piccolomini

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  • Author : Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-11-24
  • ISBN : 9781981112791
  • Pages : 106 pages

Download or read book The Piccolomini written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallenstein is the popular designation for a trilogy of dramas by German author Friedrich Schiller. It consists of the plays Wallenstein's Camp (Wallensteins Lager), a lengthy prologue, The Piccolomini (Die Piccolomini), and Wallenstein's Death (Wallensteins Tod). Schiller himself also structured the trilogy into two parts, with Wallenstein I including Wallenstein's Camp and The Piccolomini, and Wallenstein II consisting of Wallenstein's Death. He completed the trilogy in 1799. In this drama Schiller addresses the decline of the famous general Albrecht von Wallenstein, basing it loosely on actual historical events during the Thirty Years' War. Wallenstein fails at the height of his power as successful commander-in-chief of the imperial army when he begins to rebel against his emperor, Ferdinand II. The action is set some 16 years after the start of the war, in the winter of 1633/1634 and begins in the Bohemian city of Pilsen, where Wallenstein is based with his troops. For the second and third acts of the third play the action moves to Eger, where Wallenstein has fled and where he was assassinated on 26 February 1634.