Don Carlos and Mary Stuart (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover
Don Carlos and Mary Stuart, two of German literature's greatest dramas, deal with the timeless issues of power, freedom, and justice.
Dating from 1787 and 1800 respectively, one play was written before the French Revolution, the other in its aftermath. Both dramatize periods of crisis in sixteenth-century Europe, and in doing so reflect Schiller's passionate engagement with the great themes of his own age - justice, power, freedom
of conscience, legitimacy of government.
A youthful work, Don Carlos shows the victory of the forces of reaction over the representatives of a new age. Mary Stuart shows the struggle of the Scottish queen in her last days of her life, not only for her freedom, but also for peace with her conscience, and that of her English rival, Elizabeth
I, with the challenge of ruling justly. A vivid imaginative experience when read, these plays, with their starkly contrasting characters and thrilling confrontations, also demonstrate Schiller's brilliant stagecraft.
These new translations into blank verse are accurate, elegant, and playable. The introduction, notes, and chronology set the plays in their cultural and intellectual background, while a family tree explains the historical relationship bewteen Don Carlos and Mary Stuart.
Dating from 1787 and 1800 respectively, one play was written before the French Revolution, the other in its aftermath. Both dramatize periods of crisis in sixteenth-century Europe, and in doing so reflect Schiller's passionate engagement with the great themes of his own age - justice, power, freedom
of conscience, legitimacy of government.
A youthful work, Don Carlos shows the victory of the forces of reaction over the representatives of a new age. Mary Stuart shows the struggle of the Scottish queen in her last days of her life, not only for her freedom, but also for peace with her conscience, and that of her English rival, Elizabeth
I, with the challenge of ruling justly. A vivid imaginative experience when read, these plays, with their starkly contrasting characters and thrilling confrontations, also demonstrate Schiller's brilliant stagecraft.
These new translations into blank verse are accurate, elegant, and playable. The introduction, notes, and chronology set the plays in their cultural and intellectual background, while a family tree explains the historical relationship bewteen Don Carlos and Mary Stuart.
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About the Author:
Hilary Collier Sy-Quia is a postgraduate preparing for PhD in German at the University of California at Berkeley. Peter Oswald is a playwright and is the author of a number of adaptations including Valdorama (Catchmere Theatre Battersea, 1992), and Don Juan (Battersea Arts Centre, 1995). His
and H. Collier's translation of Don Carlos was performed at the Lyric, Hammersnith in 1992. Lesley Sharpe is Head of the German Department and Reader in German Literature at the University of Exeter.
Language Notes:
and H. Collier's translation of Don Carlos was performed at the Lyric, Hammersnith in 1992. Lesley Sharpe is Head of the German Department and Reader in German Literature at the University of Exeter.
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German
Original Language: German
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0192839853
- ISBN 13 9780192839855
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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