Don Carlos and Mary Stuart

Don Carlos and Mary Stuart, two of German literature's greatest dramas,deal with the timeless issues of power, freedom, and justice.Dating from 1787 and 1800 respectively, one play was written before the FrenchRevolution, the other in its aftermath. Both dramatize periods of crisis insixteenth-century Europe, and in doing so reflect Schiller's passionateengagement with the great themes of his own age - justice, power, freedom ofconscience, legitimacy of government.A youthful work, Don Carlos shows the victory of the forces of reaction over therepresentatives of a new age. Mary Stuart shows the struggle of the Scottishqueen in her last days of her life, not only for her freedom, but also for peacewith her conscience, and that of her English rival, Elizabeth I, with thechallenge of ruling justly. A vivid imaginative experience when read, theseplays, with their starkly contrasting characters and thrilling confrontations,also demonstrate Schiller's brilliant stagecraft.These new translations into blank verse are accurate, elegant, and playable. Theintroduction, notes, and chronology set the plays in their cultural andintellectual background, while a family tree explains the historicalrelationship bewteen Don Carlos and Mary Stuart.Schiller, Friedrich is the author of 'Don Carlos and Mary Stuart' with ISBN 9780192839855 and ISBN 0192839853.