Hilary Collier Sy-Quia

Susanne Baackmann

Women and War in the German Cultural Imagination

Conquering Women

Friedrich Schiller

Peter Oswald

Dating from 1787 and 1800 respectively, one play was written immediately before the French Revolution, the other in its aftermath. Both dramatized periods of crisis in sixteenth-century Europe, and in doing so reflect Schiller's passionate engagement with the great themes of his own age - justice, power, freedom of conscience. legitimacy of government.These new translations into blank verse are accurate, elegant, and playable. Theintroduction, 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.

Hilary Collier Sy-Quia

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