Friedrich Schiller - Drama, Thought and Politics

Klappentext Lesley Sharpe assesses Schiller's development as a dramatist! poet and thinker against the background of his life. Zusammenfassung In this important study Lesley Sharpe assesses Schiller's development as a dramatist! poet and thinker against the background of his life and of social! political and literary events in the last two decades of the eighteenth century! placing particular emphasis on his engagement with the relationship between art! morality and politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Chronology; Note on text references; Introduction; 1. Württemberg and Die Räuber; 2. Mannheim: Fiesco and Kabale und Liebe; 3. Early philosophy and poetry; 4. Don Carlos; 5. Weimar and Jena 1787-1792; 6. The sublime and the beautiful; 7. Aesthetic education; 8. On the 'naive' and the 'sentimental'; 9. The later poetry; 10. Wallenstein; 11. Weimar: the later dramas; 12. Schiller and his public; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Schiller's works; General index.

Product details

• Authors: Lesley Sharpe
• Assisted by: H. B. Nisbet (Editor), Martin Swales (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521030649
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03064-9
• No. of pages: 404
• Series: Cambridge Studies in German
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies