The Maid of Orleans: A Tragedy

Name: The Maid of Orleans: A Tragedy
Author: Friedrich Schiller
ISBN: 9781787243248

Author: Friedrich Schiller
Series: World Classics
Language: English
Length: 172 pages
ISBN: 9781787243248
Published: 24 September 2017
Imprint: Sovereign

Schiller
Weimar
drama
play
aesthetics
poetry
epic
romantic
sophisticated
philosophical

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Description

The play loosely follows the life of Joan of Arc. It contains a prologue introducing the important characters, followed by five acts. Each dramatizes a significant event in Joan's life.

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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