The Bride of Messina

Name: The Bride of Messina
Author: Friedrich Schiller
ISBN: 9781787243316

Author: Friedrich Schiller
Series: World Classics
Language: English
Length: 114 pages
ISBN: 9781787243316
Published: 24 September 2017
Imprint: Sovereign

Schiller
Weimar
drama
play
aesthetics
poetry
epic
romantic
sophisticated
philosophical

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Description

The play is set in Sicily, at a time when Paganism and Christianity meet, thus again outlining this theme. It is one of the most controversial works by Schiller attempting to combine antique and modern theatre.

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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