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Friedrich Schiller: Drama, Thought and Politics

Friedrich Schiller: Drama, Thought and Politics

Sharpe, Lesley
Nisbet, H. B.
Lesley, Sharpe

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in German

Literary CriticismGeneral PoetryPlays

ISBN10: 0521308178
ISBN13: 9780521308175
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 13 1991
Pages: 404
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.06 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In this important study, Lesley Sharpe assesses Schiller's development as a dramatist, poet and thinker, and provides detailed discussions of all his major works, including his essays on aesthetics. His works are viewed against the social, political and literary background of the late eighteenth century. Spanning a period from the late 1770s to 1805 they explore the insistent themes of the age - the loss of tradition and authority, the individual's claim to self-expression and the search for stability. While the early works focus on the turbulent individual, Schiller later turns to the great public concerns of the French Revolutionary era - legitimacy and power, the exercise of freedom and the relationship between morality and politics. The aesthetic essays explore the vital role of art in integrating the aesthetic, moral and political realms.

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