Friedrich Schiller was a famous German playwright, born in 1759 in the little duchy of Wurtemberg, Germany. Friedrich von Schiller was the son of an army officer. Although the young boy disliked the strict regimentation of his father's chosen profession, he was forced by the Duke of Wurtemberg to enter a military academy. Trapped and overcome with depression, Schiller began to compose morbid poetry. He found some comfort in these literary diversions, but after composing his first play - The Robbers (1782) -Schiller's writing was discovered by his superiors, and he was forbidden to write. The young dramatist quickly determined to desert the army and flee to Mannheim where he lived under an assumed name and made his living as a court playwright and stage manager. During this period, he penned such plays as Fiesko (1783), Intrigue and Love (1784) and Don Carlos (1787).
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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German writer, poet, playwriter, aesthetician and historian. He was a leading exponent of the German classics and became an honorary citizen of the First French Republic. His dramatic work pathetically defends the freedom and rights of man and human brotherhood. His views were shaped by Rousseau, Lessing and the Sturm und Drang movement. In aesthetics, he draws on Immanuel Kant. He regarded art as a means of forming a harmonious personality that freely creates the good. According to him, only art helps man to gain true freedom.







Lay of the Bell
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The Poems of Schiller (Illustrated Edition)
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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist. Schiller wrote many philosophical papers on ethics and aesthetics. He developed the concept of the Schone Seele (beautiful soul), a human being whose emotions have been educated by his reason, so that Pflicht und Neigung (duty and inclination) are no longer in conflict with one another; thus "beauty," for Schiller, is not merely a sensual experience, but a moral one as well: the Good is the Beautiful. His philosophical work was also particularly concerned with the question of human freedom, a preoccupation which also guided his historical researches. Schiller is considered by most Germans to be Germany's most important classical playwright. Critics have noted his innovative use of dramatic structure and his creation of new forms, such as the melodrama and the bourgeois tragedy. Amongst his famous works are Love and Intrigue (1784), Don Carlos (1787), The Minister (1796), The Death of Wallenstein (1799), The Piccolomini (1800) and Mary Stuart (1800).
Fridolin
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Lyrics From the German of Schiller: Including The Song of the Bell, and Other Celebrated Pieces
- 60 pages
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The World's Cyclopedia Of History V2
Containing Schiller's History Of The Thirty Years' War; Creasy's Fifteen Decisive Battles Of The World (1882)
- 236 pages
- 9 hours of reading
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Schiller's Ballads (1888)
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