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Love and intrigue a bourgeois tragedy
Uniform Title
Kabale und Liebe. English. 2019
Title
Love and intrigue [electronic resource] : a bourgeois tragedy / by Friedrich Schiller ; translation and notes to the text by Flora Kimmich ; introduction by Roger Paulin.
ISBN
9781783747405
9781783747412
9781783747429
9781783747382 (Paperback)
9781783747399 (Hardback)
ISSN
2054-2178 (Online)
2054-216X (Print)
Publication
Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, 2019.
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
1 online resource (130 pages) : 7 colour illustrations.
Notes
Edition statement information from publisher's website differs: Translated by Flora Kimmich.
First appeared in print: Kabale und Liebe : ein bürgerliches Trauerspiel in fünf Aufzügen. Mannheim : in der Schwanischen Hofbuchhandlung, 1784.
Translated from the German.
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Unrestricted online access.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website.
Summary
"Schiller's play Kabale und Liebe, usually translated into English as Love and Intrigue, represents the disastrous consequences that follow when social constraint, youthful passion, and ruthless scheming collide in a narrow setting. Written between 1782 and 1784, the play bears the marks of life at the court of the despotic Duke of Württemberg, from which Schiller had just fled, and of a fraught liaison he entered shortly after his flight. It tells the tale of a love affair that crosses the boundaries of class, between a fiery and rebellious young nobleman and the beautiful and dutiful daughter of a musician. Their affair becomes entangled in the competing purposes of malign and not-so-malign figures present at an obscure and sordid princely court somewhere in Germany. It all leads to a climactic murder-suicide. Love and Intrigue, the third of Schiller's canonical plays (after The Robbers and Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa), belongs to the genre of domestic tragedy, with a small cast and an action indoors. It takes place as the highly conventional world of the late eighteenth century stands poised to erupt, and these tensions pervade its setting and emerge in its action. This lively play brims with comedy and tragedy expressed in a colorful, highly colloquial, sometimes scandalous prose well captured in Flora Kimmich's skilled and informed translation. An authoritative essay by Roger Paulin introduces the reader to the play. As with all books in the Open Book Classics series, this translation is supported by an introduction and notes that situate an old text in its period and help both the student and the general reader read it with ease and with pleasure."--Publisher's website.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 28, 2023
Series
Open Book classics series vol. 11
Contents
Translator's Note
Introduction / Roger Paulin
Love And Intrigue. A Bourgeois Tragedy. Act One ; Act Two ; Act Three ; Act Four ; Act Five
Notes.
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