Author: Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Wilhelm Tell. A Drama
Author: Friedrich SchillerThe Legend of William Tell
Author: Publisher: Bantam Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780553070316
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Recounts in rhyme the story of the legendary Swiss folk hero who shot the apple from his son's head.
wilhelm tell
Author: Wilhelm Tell
Author: Friedrich von SchillerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226738019
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
When Schiller completed Wilhelm Tell as a "New Year's Gift for 1805" he foretold that it would cause a stir. He was right. In the midst of Great Power politics a play which drew substance from one of the fourteenth-century liberation movements proved both attractive and inflammatory. Since then the work as become immensely popular. This new English translation by William F. Mainland brings out the essential tragi-comic nature of Wilhelm Tell but also emphasizes its impressive formal unity. Schiller based his play on chronicles of the Swiss liberation movement, in which Wilhelm Tell played a major role. Since Tell's existence has never been proven, Schiller, a historian by profession, felt he had to devise a figure who would bring the uncertainties and contradictions of the various Swiss chronicles into focus. Respected for his courage and skill with a bow, for his peaceable nature and his integrity, Schiller's archer—while always ready to aid his fellows—habitually seeks solitude. In the midst of political turmoil Wilhelm Tell is the nonpolitical man of action. Keenly interested in the problematic interplay of history and legend, Schiller turned it to be dramatic advantage. He constructed his play to illustrate the greatest possible development of the character traits suggested for Tell by the chronicles. The result of Schiller's supreme achievement in historical drama.
Wilhelm Tell
Author: Friedrich SchillerPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719004261
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
When Schiller completed Wilhelm Tell as a 'New Year's Gift for 1805' he foretold that it would cause a stir. He was right. In the midst of Great Power politics a play that drew substance from one of the fourteenth-century liberation movements proved both attractive and inflammatory. Since then the work has become immensely popular. This new English translation by William F. Mainland brings out the essential tragicomic nature of Wilhelm Tell but also emphasizes its impressive formal unity.
Wilhelm Tell
Author: Friedrich SchillerSchiller's Wilhelm Tell
Author: Friedrich SchillerWilhelm Tell (Esprios Classics)
Author: Friedrich von SchillerPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794893792
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Companion to Schiller's Wilhelm Tell
Author: R. QuickPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368818589
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
A Companion to the Works of Friedrich Schiller
Author: Steven D. MartinsonPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1571131833
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Friedrich Schiller is not merely one of Germany's foremost poets. He is also one of the major German contributors to world literature. The undying words he gave to characters such as Marquis Posa in Don Carlos and Wilhelm Tell in the eponymous drama continue to underscore the need for human freedom. Schiller cultivated hope in the actualization of moral knowledge through aesthetic education and critical reflection, leading to his ideal of a more humane humanity. At the same time, he was fully cognizant of the problems that attend various forms of idealism. Yet for Schiller, ultimately, love remains the gravitational center of the universe and of human existence, and beyond life and death joy prevails. This collection of cutting-edge essays by some of the world's leading Schiller experts constitutes a milestone in scholarship. It includes in-depth discussions of the writer's major dramatic and poetic works, his essays on aesthetics, and his activities as historian, anthropologist, and physiologist, as well as of his relation to the ancients and of Schiller reception in 20th-century Germany. Contributors: Steven D. Martinson, Walter Hinderer, David Pugh, Otto Dann, Werner von Stransky-Stranka-Greifenfels, J. M. van der Laan, Rolf-Peter Janz, Lesley Sharpe, Norbert Oellers, Dieter Borchmeyer, Karl S. Guthke, Wulf Koepke. Steven D. Martinson is Professor of German at the University of Arizona.