The Robbers and Wallenstein
by Friedrich. Schiller, F. J. Lamport (Translator, Introduction by)
ISBN-10: 0140443681
ISBN-13: 9780140443684
$18.00
Book Specs
Binding
UK-B Format Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Published on
Feb 28, 1980
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
7.76x5.14x1.13 Inches
Weight
0.73 Pounds
About the Book
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.