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Wilhelm Tell

by Friedrich Schiller

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1804
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Schiller's last completed play dramatizes the legend of the Swiss marksman forced by a tyrannical governor to shoot an apple from his own son's head. Out of that famous ordeal the drama builds a stirring account of a people rising against oppression, weaving Tell's private courage into the wider struggle of the Swiss cantons for their freedom. Written near the end of Schiller's life, it became a rallying cry for liberty across nineteenth-century Europe and the basis of Rossini's opera. Grand, patriotic, and full of memorable scenes, it remains one of the best loved works of German theater.

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Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was a German poet, playwright, and historian, and with Goethe a founder of Weimar classicism. His dramas of freedom and moral struggle, and his Ode to Joy set to music by Beethoven, made him one of the most beloved writers in the German language.

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First published
1804
Reading time
About 2 hours
Pages
179
Language
English
Genre
Theater
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