Schiller

Past Masters (Oxford)

by T.J. Reed

Johann Christopher Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) was, with Goëthe, the supreme dramatist and lyric poet of the great classical age of German literature. His plays include The Robbers , Don Carlos , Maria Stuart , The Maid of Orleans , and Wilhelm Tell . In this book T.J. Reed looks carefully
at the image of Schiller as a serious and moralizing writer and finds in him a passion, subtlety and wit that make him a more complex and sympathetic personality than posterity has given him credit for.

128 pages, Paperback

First published April 25, 1991