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Werner Habicht
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
..., Friedrich ( 1759–1805 ), German poet and dramatist . His fascination for Shakespeare’s great villains is reflected in some early plays ( Die Räuber ; The Robbers, 1781 ) and in his translation of Macbeth ( 1802 ) for the Weimar theatre. In critical writings he pleaded for the transformation of Shakespeare’s ‘naive’ art into a more idealist, ‘sentimentalist’ mode that dominates in his later tragedies. Werner...
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Oxford Reader's Companion to George Eliot
..., Friedrich ( 1759–1805 ), German poet and dramatist who was George Eliot 's favourite German author when she first began to read the language and its literature. After starting to learn German in March 1840 she was reading his Maria Stuart by October, and with her friend Cara *Bray she went on in the early 1840s to read all of his plays, much of his poetry, his history of the Thirty Years War, and Thomas *Carlyle 's Life of Schiller ( McCobb 1982 : 11). Schiller's idealism and portrayals of heroic humanity appealed to the young Mary...
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Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
.... New York, 1971. Looks at Schiller's notion of universal history and aesthetic education in the light of late-eighteenth-century reworkings of myths of progress. Dewhurst, K. , and N. Reeves . Friedrich Schiller: Medicine, Psychology and Literature . Oxford, 1979. The only English translation of Schiller's medical writings with full commentary, a detailed account of Schiller's education, and valuable discussion of the impact of his early psychophysiological ideas on his creative work. Koopmann, Helmut , ed. Schiller Handbuch . Stuttgart, 1998. A...
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The Companion to Theatre and Performance
..., Friedrich ( 1759–1805 ) German dramatist , director , and poet , author of the finest verse *tragedies in the German language. Born in Marbach, he began writing plays while still at military academy in Württemberg, from which he was expelled in 1780 . In 1782 he fled from the repressive regime in Stuttgart and eventually was appointed poet at the Mannheim Court Theatre, where his revolutionary *Sturm und Drang prose drama The Robbers ( 1782 ) caused a sensation. Despite its *melodramatic language and incidents, The Robbers has remained...
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Michael Patterson
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
..., Friedrich ( 1759–1805 ) German dramatist, poet, aesthetician, director, and professor of history, author of arguably the finest verse tragedies in the German language. Born in Marbach, he began writing plays while still at his military academy in Württemberg, from which he was expelled in 1780 . In 1782 he fled from the repressive regime in Stuttgart and eventually was appointed theatre poet at the Mannheim Court Theatre . Here his revolutionary Sturm und Drang prose drama The Robbers ( 1782 ) caused a sensation at its première (‘The theatre...
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Jack Zipes
The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (2 ed.)
..., Friedrich von ( 1759–1805 ) Classical German poet , dramatist , and historian , who wrote one major fairy-tale play, Turandot, Prinzessin von China ( Turandot, Princess of China , 1802 ), based on Carlo Gozzi ’s play Turandot ( 1762 ). Schiller’s tragicomedy concerns the gifted but cruel Princess Turandot of China who will marry only the man who can solve three riddles. A daring prince named Calaf, who is travelling incognito, solves the riddles, but the enraged princess demands a retaliatory trial. Calaf must demonstrate his integrity one...
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Sue Lonoff
The Oxford Companion to the Brontes
...Schiller, Friedrich von ( 1759–1805 ), German dramatist , poet , and historian ; a seminal figure in the German Romantic movement. Charlotte Brontë read his Ballads in 1843 at the Pensionnat Heger and translated at least six into English and French ( see notebooks ( cahiers ) ). Allusions to Schiller's work occur in three of her novels. His books appear on Hunsden Yorke Hunsden 's shelves in The Professor (ch. 4). Diana and Mary Rivers of Jane Eyre are reading his play Die Räuber ( The Robbers ), when Jane first sees them (ch. 28); she...
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The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
..., Friedrich von ( 1759–1805 ), classical German poet , dramatist , and historian , who wrote one major fairy-tale play, Turandot, Prinzessin von China ( Turandot, Princess of China , 1802 ), based on Carlo Gozzi's play Turandot ( 1762 ). Schiller's tragicomedy concerns the gifted but cruel Princess Turandot of China who will marry only the man who can solve three riddles. A daring prince named Calaf, who is travelling incognito, solves the riddles, but the enraged princess demands a retaliatory trial. Calaf must demonstrate his integrity one...
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Oxford Essential Quotations (6 ed.)
...0Friedrichvon Friedrich von Schiller 1759 – 1805 German dramatist and poet Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium. Joy, beautiful radiance of the gods, daughter of Elysium. ‘An die Freude’ (1785) Freude , schöner Götterfunken joy , beautiful radiance daughter of Elysium Alle Menschen werden Brüder Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt. All men become brothers under your tender wing. ‘An die Freude’ (1785) All men become brothers The sun does not set in my dominions. Philip II Don Carlos (1787) act 1, sc. 6; see North sun does not set not...
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Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (8 ed.)
...0Friedrich0von Friedrich von Schiller 1759 – 1805 German dramatist and poet Nur durch das Morgenthor des Schönen Drangst du in der Erkenntnis Land. Only through beauty's gate, can you penetrate the land of knowledge. ‘The Artists’ (1789) Only through beauty 's gate Only through beauty's gate penetrate the land of knowledge Ein Augenblick, gelebt im Paradiese, Wird nicht zu teuer mit dem Tod gebüsst. One moment spent in Paradise Is not too dearly paid for with one's life. Don Carlos (1787) act 1, sc. 5 moment spent in Paradise moment spent in...
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A Dictionary of Philosophy (3 ed.)
..., Johann Cristoph Friedrich ( 1759–1805 ) The German poet and man of letters is remembered philosophically principally for his influential insistence on the importance of aesthetics. Whereas Kant identified freedom with the exercise of reason, for Schiller the aesthetic impulse is a fundamental element of human nature, whose proper expression and development is itself the point at which the phenomenal and noumenal worlds of Kant fuse, and hence the supreme exercise of human freedom (aesthetics is also connected with play, or activity as an end in...
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The Oxford Companion to German Literature (3 ed.)
..., Johann Christoph Friedrich (Marbach, 1759–1805 , Weimar), generally referred to as Friedrich Schiller , who was elevated to the nobility as von Schiller in 1802 , was the son of a commoner who had risen to commissioned rank in the army of the Duke of Württemberg. At 13 Schiller was separated from his family and sent by the Duke to the Militär-Akademie, in which he remained until he was 21. He emerged from this environment, which he resented, as an army physician and something of a rebel. While at school he wrote a play, the unwieldy yet dynamic Die...
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World Encyclopedia
..., Johann Christoph Friedrich von ( 1759–1805 ) German dramatist , historian , and philosopher . His early blank verse plays, such as The Robbers ( 1781 ) and Don Carlos ( 1787 ), are classics of the Sturm und Drang period. Schiller's aesthetic and philosophical ideas were influenced by the idealism of Kant. His masterpiece is the trilogy Wallenstein ( 1800 ). Other historical plays include Mary Stuart ( 1801 ), Maid of Orleans ( 1801 ), and William Tell ( 1804 ). Schiller's ‘Ode to Joy’ forms the finale of Beethoven's Ninth...
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Frederick Beiser
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2 ed.)
...of history at Jena. Schiller was ennobled in 1802 . Schiller’s aesthetic writings consist in four major treatises and many smaller essays, most of them written between 1791 and 1795 . Each of the treatises has been influential in the history of aesthetics, and so they deserve separate analysis here. Much admired by Friedrich Schlegel, Friedrich Wilhelm von Schelling, Friedrich Hölderlin, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Schiller’s aesthetic writings played a formative role in the development of German idealism and Romanticism. Schiller was indeed the...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
..., Johann Christoph Friedrich von ( 1759–1805 ) German dramatist and poet. The plays Die Verschwörung des Fiesko zu Genua ( 1783 : The Conspiracy of Fiesco at Genoa ), Kabale und Liebe ( 1784 : Cabal and Love ), and Don Carlos ( 1787 ) are regarded as his Sturm und Drang works. His ‘classical’ verse plays are the Wallenstein trilogy ( 1797–1800 ), Maria Stuart ( 1801 ), Die Jungfrau von Orleans ( 1801 : The Maid of Orleans ), Die Braut von Messina ( 1803 : The Bride of Messina ), and Wilhelm Tell ( 1804 ). Matthew Lewis and ...
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Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
...by Schiller Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Von Schillers Werke: Nationalausgabe . 44 vols. Edited by L. Blumenthal and B. von Wiese . Weimar, 1943. This is now the standard edition of Schiller. For the aesthetics, see volumes 20 and 21. For Schiller's correspondence with Gottfried Körner, see volume 26, pp. 174–229. Translations of Works by Schiller Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Von The Aesthetic Letters, Essays and the Philosophical Letters of Schiller. Translated by J. Weiss . Boston, 1845. Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Von ...
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
..., Johann Christoph Friedrich von ( 1759–1805 ) German dramatist and poet . Born in Marbach as the son of an army surgeon, he was educated in medicine at a military academy, but eventually rebelled against military discipline and fled the Stuttgart regiment to make his way in theatre. His first play Die Räuber ( 1781 : The Robbers ), the story of a nobleman who turns robber, caused a sensation at its first performance. It was quickly followed by three others— Die Verschwörung des Fiesko zu Genua ( 1783 : The Conspiracy of Fiesco at Genoa ), Kabale...
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The Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers
..., Friedrich Johann Christoph von ( 1759–1805 ) Friedrich Schiller was born in Marbach on the Neckar River (Württemberg) on 10 November 1759 and died in Weimar on 9 May 1805 . His father, Johann Kaspar Schiller , was a soldier (medic) of Duke Karl Eugen of Württemberg and later the gardener of the Orangerie at Solitude Palace. His mother, Elisabeth Dorothea , née Kodweiss, was the daughter of an innkeeper. Schiller grew up in modest surroundings and his youth was influenced both by his parents’ Swabian pietism and by the despotism of Karl Eugen....
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The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)
..., (Johann Christoph) Friedrich von ( 1759–1805 ), outstanding German poet and dramatist. He was only 22 when his first play Die Räuber , about the hostility between two brothers, was accepted for the theatre at Mannheim , where it was produced in 1782 with immediate success. Schiller was appointed official dramatist to the theatre, writing for it Fiesco ( 1783 ) and Kabale und Liebe ( 1784 ). He was heavily in debt, however, having taken refuge in Mannheim, where he was living under an assumed name, from his duties as an army doctor. After the...
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M. J. Inwood
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)
...real and the ideal, and strives to reconcile it: sentimental poetry. In the ‘Elysian’ age to come, when harmony is reflectively restored, poetry will be at once naïve and sentimental. Mr M. J. Inwood R. D. Miller , Schiller and the Ideal of Freedom (Oxford, 1970). T. J. Reed , Schiller (Oxford, 1991). A. Ugrinsky (ed.), Friedrich on Schiller and the Drama of Human Existence (London,...
