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Schiller's Suppressed Poems including: Bacchus in the Pillory, Spinosa, To the Fates, The Parallel, Klopstock and Wieland, The Muses' Revenge, The Simple Peasant, Actaeon, Man's Dignity, The Messiah. Epitaph, The Bad Monarchs, and many other poems.

The Robbers (1781) was written in great secrecy under the prison-like conditions of Wurttenberg's Karlsschule: Karl, the son of a count, is disinherited through the machinations of his brother Franz, and, turning his back on a social order he finds unjust and corrupt, becomes the leader of a band of robbers.

Schiller's grand historical tragedy is a battle of wits between Mary Queen of Scots and her captor, Queen Elizabeth I. Mary has been held prisoner for nineteen years by her cousin, Elizabeth I, who has condemned her to death, but is reluctant to be seen to carry out the sentence. Leicester,...

One of European theatre's major plays, Schiller's masterpiece hinges on a brilliantly imagined meeting between Mary, Queen of Scots - focus of simmering Catholic dissent and her cousin Elizabeth, Queen of England, who has imprisoned her. Isolated by their duplicitous male courtiers, the women collide...

On these grounds I might safely leave the chorus to be its own advocate, if we had ever seen it presented in an appropriate manner. But it must be remembered that a dramatic composition first assumes the character of a whole by means of representation on the stage. The poet supplies only the words, to...

Thomas Holcroft, the translator of these Memoirs of Baron Trenck, was the author of about thirty plays, among which one, The Road to Ruin, produced in 1792, has kept its place upon the stage. He was born in December, 1745, the son of a shoemaker who did also a little business in horse-dealing. After...

Extrait : "Ces psychologues anglais à qui nous sommes redevables des seules tentatives faites jusqu'à présent pour constituer une histoire des origines de la morale, nous présentent en leur personne une énigme qui n'est pas à dédaigner ; j'avoue que, par cela même, en tant qu'énigmes incarnées, ils ont sur leurs livres un avantage capital, ils sont eux-mêmes intéressants !"

Freuen Sie sich auf die schönsten Balladen der Deutschen - mysteriös, dramatisch, geheimnisvoll und bewegend. Egal, ob "Der Knabe im Moor", "Der Erlkönig" oder "Die Bürgschaft" - Sie werden staunen, wie viele Balladen Sie noch aus Ihrer Schulzeit kennen und wie viele...

Am Geburtstag blicken wir zurück auf das vergangene Jahr, vielleicht sogar auf unser bisheriges Leben. Auf seine Höhen und Tiefen. Auf das, was wirklich zählt im Leben. Wir schauen aber auch nach vorne in die Zukunft. Was wird uns das nächste Lebensjahr wohl bringen? Wohin wird unsere Reise uns...

Schau' aus dem trüben Erdgewimmel Empor in deinen lichten Himmel, Schau' auf zu Gottes Lieb' und Macht: Er ist dein Gott, er hält die Wacht Wenn wir uns zu Gott wenden oder ein Dankesgebet sprechen, vertrauen wir darauf, dass Gott unser Bitten erhört. Der Glaube daran, dass er unser Gebet...

Engels founded Marxist theory together with Karl Marx and in 1845 published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research in Manchester. In 1848, Engels co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Marx and also authored and co-authored (primarily with Marx)...

This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...

La ópera (del italiano opera, "obra musical") designa, desde aproximadamente el año 1650, un género de música teatral en el que una acción escénica es armonizada, cantada y tiene acompañamiento instrumental (en algunas ocasiones con pequeños...