"Includes the plays Joan of Arc and William Tell Two plays about
historical characters whose fame has also raised them to the level
of myth. In Joan of Arc (1801), Schiller allows his heroine a more
glorious death than her historical execution at the stake, and
imbues her with more passion, and compassion, than is usually
ascribed to the actual Joan. In William Tell (1805), often regarded
as his greatest play, Schiller creates a vivid sense of time and
place - medieval Switzerland - and in his troubled hero, the
accidental revolutionary Tell, create a complex and fascinating
figure. One of the great figures in German literature, Friedrich
Schiller (1759-1805) was in some ways the most significant
playwright of his day, numbering among his devotees Coleridge and
Carlyle. His plays are known for their originality of form, vivid
stage imagery and powerful language, faithfully rendered in Robert
David MacDonald's acclaimed translations. "
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