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E-book Love and Intrigue

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Friedrich Schiller wrote Love and Intrigue (Kabale und Liebe) in 1782 after having fled from his native Württemberg, and completed it in early 1784. It was ready for the first stage performance in Mannheim on 13 April 1784. Duke Karl August, the ruler of Württemberg, had not appreciated Schiller’s talent and was more interested in his services as an army surgeon. Schiller had escaped across the border to the more congenial Mannheim, where he was to see the first two of his plays, The Robbersand Fiesco, completed and performed. His absences had incurred the Duke’s displeasure. This was not to be taken lightly: in 1777, Karl Eugen had had the poet and journalist Christian Daniel Friedrich Schubart arrested and incarcerated for speaking things he did not wish to hear. While Schiller was at the cadet school founded by the Duke, the Hohe Karlsschule, the pupils were taken to see Schubart in prison. The message was clear: toe the line, or else.During his incarceration, Schubart had written a poem, a vision of a royal burial vault, where lay side by side the good princes, the fathers of their people, and those whose reigns had spelt oppression and misrule, extravagance and favouritism. Whatever they might think of the rest of the play, audiences and readers of Love and Intrigue are unfailingly moved by the old retainer’s account in Act Two, Scene Two, of the sale of 7,000 soldiers to fight in the American War of Independence (so-called Hessians) in order to pay for Lady Milford’s diamonds. It rings true. In fact Karl Eugen did not sell his soldiers, but he did grind his subjects to build palaces for his mistress. To this is added the subject of love across the social divide of aristocracy and commoner. In these terms, the play could be read as an anti-monarchist, anti-aristocratic tract, an indictment foreshadowing demands expressed violently in France in 1789 — just a few years ahead — and calling for a reordering of society’s values. Unlike The Robbers, where anarchy threatens to break out, or Fiesco, where a regime is overthrown, Love and Intrigue offers no such challenges to the established order. The explosive charges mentioned in the text — by the First Minister and by Lady Milford — are metaphorical only: they are not laid under the palace (and the Duke never appears). Despite suitable punishment of wrongdoers at the end, the system does not change. At least in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, with which this play is often compared, the families cease feuding at the sight of the dead lovers. But we do not sense any change of heart here, nor are we led to expect any.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

792 PAU l

Penerbit

London : Open Book Publishers., 2019

Deskripsi Fisik

131 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781783747382

Klasifikasi

792

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Stage Presentation, Theater

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