Friedrich Schiller, Wallenstein [The Wallenstein Trilogy, Wallenstein's Camp, The Piccolomini, Wallenstein's Death]

Jeffrey L. High (California State University, Long Beach)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1798 - 1799

Places

Germany (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Play

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Wallenstein

, Friedrich Schiller’s drama trilogy consisting of the plays

Wallensteins Lager

Die Piccolomini

and

Wallensteins Tod, Ein Trauerspiel in fünf Aufzügen

[

Wallenstein’s Camp

The Piccolomini

, and

Wallenstein’s Death

A Play of Mourning in Five Acts

, 1800] portrays the betrayal and murder of Bohemian General Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583-1634) during his final three days – at the height of his military and political power. Written in 1798/9, just after the period characterized by Schiller’s preoccupation with historical works, journal publications, aesthetic studies, and his first attack of the illness that eventually proved fatal,

Wallenstein

marks Schiller’s return to drama after almost a decade, and is the first in a series of five dramas written between 1796 and…

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Citation: High, Jeffrey L.. "Wallenstein [The Wallenstein Trilogy, Wallenstein's Camp, The Piccolomini, Wallenstein's Death]". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 January 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11151, accessed 28 April 2024.]

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