[
The Robbers], Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller’s socially critical
Sturm und Drangdrama of two brothers’ tragic conflict over the love and inheritance of their father, the love and possession of a woman, the problematic nature of freedom, and disavowal of moral and feudal tradition, is among his best-known works. Though the earliest of Schiller’s plays extant, it is at least his fifth attempt at drama, preceded by
Die Christenand
Absolon(1772) and the plan for
Der Student von Nassau(1775). Schiller destroyed his next attempt,
Cosmus von Medicis(1776), somewhat related to
Die Räuber, a drama of the hatred between two brothers and their competition for the same woman. Thus
Die Räuberholds the distinction of being the first of Schiller’s four early dramas (
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Citation: High, Jeffrey L.. "Die Räuber". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 09 February 2006 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11144, accessed 11 May 2024.]
