Friedrich Schiller - Schiller Volume Three: Joan of Arc, William Tell - Paperback Book

Friedrich Schiller

Schiller: Volume ThreeJoan of Arc; William Tell\nAuthor(s): Friedrich Schiller, Robert David MacDonald\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oberon Books Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781840026207, 978-1840026207\nSynopsis\n\""Includes the plays Joan of Arc and William Tell Two plays about historical characters whose fame has also raised them to the level of myth. In Joan of Arc [tel], Schiller allows his heroine a more glorious death than her historical execution at the stake, and imbues her with more passion, and compassion, than is usually ascribed to the actual Joan. In William Tell [tel], often regarded as his greatest play, Schiller creates a vivid sense of time and place - medieval Switzerland - and in his troubled hero, the accidental revolutionary Tell, create a complex and fascinating figure. One of the great figures in German literature, Friedrich Schiller [tel] was in some ways the most significant playwright of his day, numbering among his""