Wilhelm Tell
About this book
"When Schiller completed Wilhelm Tell as a 'New Year's Gift for 1805' he foretold that it would cause a stir. He was right. In the midst of Great Power politics a play that drew substance from one of the fourteenth-century liberation movements proved both attractive and inflammatory. Since then the work has become immensely popular. This new English translation by William F. Mainland brings out the essential tragicomic nature of Wilhelm Tell but also emphasizes its impressive formal unity."
Subjects
- continental european drama (dramatic works by one author)
- criticism and interpretation
- deutsch
- drama
- drama (dramatic works by one author)
- fiction
- german drama
- german language
- readers
- translations into english
- wilhelm tell
- wilhelm tell in fiction
- wilhelm tell (schiller, friedrich)