1780s Plays (Study Guide) - 1780 Plays, 1781 Plays, 1783 Plays, 1784 Plays, 1786 Plays, 1787 Plays, 1788 Plays, Fiesco, the Marriage of Figaro (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1780 Plays, 1781 Plays, 1783 Plays, 1784 Plays, 1786 Plays, 1787 Plays, 1788 Plays, Fiesco, the Marriage of Figaro, the Robbers, Egmont, the Contrast, Don Carlos, le Bon Pere, Intrigue and Love, Iphigenia in Tauris, the Belle's Stratagem, Anno 7603. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Fiesco (full title - Die Verschworung des Fiesco zu Genua, or Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa) is the second full length drama written by the German playwright Friedrich Schiller. It is a republican tragedy based on the historical conspiracy of Giovanni Luigi Fieschi against Andrea Doria in Genoa in 1547. Schiller began it after the 1782 premiere of his first play, The Robbers, and dedicated it to his teacher Jakob Friedrich von Abel. It was performed 75 times, which was more often than Goethes highly popular Gotz von Berlichingen. It premiered in Bonn in 1783 at the Hoftheater. When Schiller fled from Stuttgart to Mannheim on 22 September 1782, he took with him the almost completed manuscript of a play which he asserted he was striving to bring to a state of perfection never before seen on the German stage. A piece that would be free of all the weaknesses which still clung to his first piece. With Fiesco's Conspiracy, which he intended to share with no less than Lessing, Wieland and Goethe before publication, something he in the end refrained from doing, he was convinced that he would finally establish his reputation as a playwright. On 27 September the author recited his play to the players of the Mannheim Theater at the home of Wilhelm Christian Meyer, its director. Andreas Streicher, who had fled with Schiller, gave an account of the afternoon: The reaction of the listeners was devastating. By the end of the second of five acts, the com...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2214565