Demetrius

Name: Demetrius
Author: Friedrich Schiller
ISBN: 9781787243323

Author: Friedrich Schiller
Series: World Classics
Language: English
Length: 62 pages
ISBN: 9781787243323
Published: 10 October 2017
Imprint: Sovereign

Schiller
Weimar
drama
play
aesthetics
poetry
epic
romantic
sophisticated
philosophical

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Description

An incomplete drama based on the life of Demetrius, briefly Russian czar between 1604 and 1605. It is a reflection on the individual's responsibility in history and on the rule of Napoleon.

Author

Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) was the great dramatist of German liberty — The Robbers, Mary Stuart, Wilhelm Tell — and a poet-philosopher of the beautiful and the sublime. With Goethe he made Weimar a capital of letters. Schiller's plays turn history into moral weather: tyranny, honour, and the chance of a free people. With 22 titles in our catalogue, he remains a founding voice of European Romantic drama.

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