Don Carlos (World's Classics) - Softcover

Schiller, Friedrich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192823736 ISBN 13: 9780192823731

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1996

Synopsis

This text features two plays by Schiller, dating from 1787 and 1800 respectively. One written immediately before the French Revolution, the other in its aftermath, both dramatized periods of crisis in 16th-century Europe, and in doing so reflect Schiller's passionate engagement with the great themes of his own age - justice, power, freedom of conscience and legitimacy of government. These new translations into blank verse are accurate and playable. The introduction, notes, and chronology set the plays in their cultural and intellectual background, while a family tree explains the historical relationship between "Don Carlos" and "Mary Stuart".

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Review:

"fast-paced, tense, eloquent, and philosophical, this translation recaptures the effect of Schiller on his first readers for contemporary ones. With its precision and clarity, it gives us a Schiller both true to his time and up-to-date."--William Arctander O'Brien, University of California at San Diego "fast-paced, tense, eloquent, and philosophical, this translation recaptures the effect of Schiller on his first readers for contemporary ones. With its precision and clarity, it gives us a Schiller both true to his time and up-to-date."--William Arctander O'Brien, University of California at San Diego "fast-paced, tense, eloquent, and philosophical, this translation recaptures the effect of Schiller on his first readers for contemporary ones. With its precision and clarity, it gives us a Schiller both true to his time and up-to-date."--William Arctander O'Brien, University of California at San Diego "fast-paced, tense, eloquent, and philosophical, this translation recaptures the effect of Schiller on his first readers for contemporary ones. With its precision and clarity, it gives us a Schiller both true to his time and up-to-date."--William Arctander O'Brien, University of California at SanDiego

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0192823736
• ISBN 13: 9780192823731
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 398