The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
Parentage and Schooling
Captain Schiller and his wife--Sojourn at Lorch--Traits of
Friedrich's childhood--Removal to Ludwigsburg--Karl Eugen, Duke of
Wuerttemberg--Impressions from court, theater and school--Poetic
beginnings--Duke Karl's change of heart--Franziska von Hohenheim--The
Academy at Solitude--Schiller at the Academy--Schoo...
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CHAPTER I
Parentage and Schooling
Captain Schiller and his wife--Sojourn at Lorch--Traits of
Friedrich's childhood--Removal to Ludwigsburg--Karl Eugen, Duke of
Wuerttemberg--Impressions from court, theater and school--Poetic
beginnings--Duke Karl's change of heart--Franziska von Hohenheim--The
Academy at Solitude--Schiller at the Academy--School exercises--From law
to medicine--Early poems and orations--An ardent friend--Books read and
their effect--Dramatic plans--Dissertation rejected--Genesis of 'The
Robbers'--Morbid melancholy--Release from the Academy--Value of the
education received.
CHAPTER II
The Robbers
General characterization--The Schubart story--Schiller and
Schubart--The contrasted brothers--Comparison with Klinger and
Leisewitz--Influence of Rousseau and Goethe--Unlike earlier attacks
on the social order--Outlawry in the eighteenth century--The
noble bandit in literature--Karl Moor's crazy ambition--His
sentimentalism--Schiller's sympathy with his hero--Character of
Franz--Influence of Shakespeare--Ethical attitude of Franz--A dull
villain--Character of Amalia--The subordinate outlaws--A powerful
stage-play--Defects and merits.
CHAPTER III
The Stuttgart Medicus
Schiller's position at Stuttgart--Personal appearance--Convivial
pleasures--Visits at Solitude--Revision of 'The Robbers' for
publication--The two prefaces--Reception of 'The Robbers'--A stage-version
prepared for Dalberg--Changes in the stage-version--Popularity of
the play--Medicus and poet--The 'Anthology' of 1782--Character
of Schiller's youthful verse--Various poems considered--The songs
to Laura--Poetic promise of the 'Anthology'--Journalistic
enterprises--Schiller as a critic of himself--Quarrel with Duke
Karl--The Swiss imbroglio--The duke implacable--Flight from Stuttgart.
CHAPTER IV
The Conspiracy of Fiesco at Genoa
General characterization--The historical Fiesco--Influence of
Rousseau--The conflicting authorities--Fact and fiction in the play--Not
really a republican tragedy--Character of Fiesco--Of Verrina--Schiller's
vacillation--Fiesco's inconsistency--Lack of historical lucidity--The
changed conclusion--Weak and strong points--Fiesco and the Moor--The
female characters--Extravagant diction.
CHAPTER V
The Fugitive in Hiding
Reception at Mannheim--An elocutionary failure--'Fiesco' rejected by
Dalberg--Refuge sought in Bauerbach--A new friend--Relations
with outside world--Interest in Lotte von Wolzogen--Literary
projects and employments--Beginnings of 'Don Carlos'--Friendly
overtures from Dalberg--Work upon 'Louise Miller'--Jealousy and
resignation--Flutterings of the heart--Departure from Bauerbach
with new play completed.
CHAPTER VI
Cabal and Love
General characterization--English Beginnings of bourgeois
tragedy--'Miss Sara Sampson'--Development of the tragedy
of social conflict--Love in the age of sentimentalism--Rousseau
and the social conflict--Wagner and Lenz--Diderot's 'Father
of the Family'--Gemmingen's 'Head of the House'--Evolution
of Schiller's plan--Debt to predecessors--Hints from Wagner
and Lessing and 'Siegwart'--Weakness of the tragic conclusion--Character
of Louise--Her religious sentimentalism--Fearsomeness--Lack of
mother-wit--A cold heroine--Character of Ferdinand--Sentimental
extravagance--Father and son--Prototypes of President von Walter.
CHAPTER VII
Theater poet in Mannheim
Mannheim in 1783--Dalberg and his theater--The situation on Schiller's
arrival--Letter to Frau von Wolzogen--Contract with Dalberg--Illness and
disappointments--Pecuniary troubles--'Fiesco' on the stage--Triumph of
'Cabal and Love'--Critical notices--Discourse on the theater--Contract
with Dalberg not renewed--Disappoint
Publisher | |
Binding | Kindle Edition (44 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized
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# of Pages | N/A |
ISBN-10 | B004M8SCO2 |
Publication Date | 02/03/2011 |
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