TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schiller, Friedrich
AU  - Paulin, Roger
AB  - " By the time Frederich Schiller came to write the Wallenstein trilogy, his reputation as one of Germany’s leading playwrights was all but secured. Consisting of Wallenstein’s Camp, The Piccolomini and The Death of Wallenstein, this suite of plays appeared between 1798 and 1799, each production under the original direction of Schiller’s collaborator and mentor, Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe. Across the three plays, which are now commonly performed and printed together, Schiller charts the thwarted rebellion of General Albrecht von Wallenstein. Based loosely on the events of the Thirty Years' War, the trilogy provides a unique vantage on an army’s loyalty to their commander and the machinations and intrigues of international diplomacy, giving insight into the military hero who is placed on the threshold between these forces as they are increasingly pitted against one another.  The Wallenstein trilogy, formally innovative and modern beyond its time, is a brilliant study of power, ambition and betrayal. In this new translation—the latest in a long line of distinguished English translations of the play, starting with Coleridge's in Schiller's lifetime—Flora Kimmich succeeds in rendering what is often a difficult source text into language that is at once accessible and enjoyable. Coupled with a complete and careful commentary and a glossary, both of which are targeted to undergraduates, and accompanied by an authoritative introductory essay by Roger Paulin, this edition also includes embedded readings in German of the play and links to the original German text. It will be an invaluable resource for students of German, European literature and history, and military history, as well as to all readers approaching this important set of plays for the first time. "
DO  - 10.11647/OBP.0101
ID  - OAPEN ID: 646666
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 976024441
KW  - commentary
KW  - translation
KW  - european literature and history
KW  - german drama
KW  - glossary
KW  - wallenstein trilogy
KW  - thirty years' war
KW  - frederich schiller
KW  - Albrecht von Wallenstein
KW  - Illo
KW  - Neubrunn
KW  - Lower Franconia
KW  - Questenberg
KW  - Sweden
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/282a5d24-9bf5-4d29-9965-26dc296e0e22/646666.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30333
PB  - Open Book Publishers
PY  - 2017
SN  - 9781783742639
TI  - Wallenstein : A Dramatic Poem
ER  - 
