Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

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Standard Name: Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von

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Intertextuality and Influence Rose Allatini
At eighteen, in 1908 (which makes her the same age as her author), she experiences initial social success in Vienna,
Allatini, Rose. Girl of Good Family. Martin Secker.
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but her reading of dubious texts (not only Schiller 's Maria Stuart but...
Friends, Associates Joanna Baillie
On 11 May 1812 Henry Crabb Robinson recorded in his diary meeting JB and other women writers on a visit to Miss Benjers (Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger ). In his account of this pleasant evening...
Textual Features Joanna Baillie
The 1798 instalment of the series consists of three plays, two on love (the comedy The Tryal and the tragedy Count Basil) and one, the tragedy De Monfort, on hate. De Monfort himself...
Intertextuality and Influence Joanna Baillie
Baillie's preface explicitly denies that she was influenced by (even that she had read) German tragedians, while implicitly calling attention to the similarities in style and subject-matter between her work and theirs: for instance between...
Textual Production Mathilde Blind
The first writing by MB to become public was an ode she wrote in German to mark the centenary of Friedrich Schiller , which was recited at commemorations in Bradford.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Education Jane Welsh Carlyle
But by the end of his first visit, Jane Welsh agreed to allow Carlyle to supervise her reading, and on his departure he provided her with a list of books by authors including Tasso ,...
Intertextuality and Influence Dinah Mulock Craik
The narrative provides a fairly complex interrogation of the notion that a woman's love can rescue a man from his sins. The romance in Schiller 's Die Piccolomini provides a point of reference throughout the narrative.
Intertextuality and Influence Toru Dutt
TD opens A Sheaf with a quotation from Schiller and a dedication to her mother . The translated poems (nearly all of which have accompanying critical notes) come from a range of French authors including...
Textual Features Penelope Fitzgerald
In life her hero (whose actual name was Friedrich Leopold, or Fritz, von Hardenberg) was a friend of Schiller and Schlegel , and died in 1801 before the age of thirty, having just published his...
Textual Production Catherine Gore
CG 's historical drama Don Juan of Austria (adapted from Don Juan D'Autriche by Casimir Delavigne ) began a twelve-night run at Covent Garden .
Parts of this story overlap with Friedrich Schiller 's Don...
Intertextuality and Influence Felicia Hemans
FH studied German earnestly during this period of her life, and preferred Schiller to Goethe .
Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn.
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Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315.
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Intertextuality and Influence Felicia Hemans
The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth , Byron , Coleridge , Goethe , Schiller —and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
Education Julia Ward Howe
Although she briefly attended young ladies' schools, JWH was mainly educated at home. She was tutored by Joseph Cogswell , who would go on to head the Astor Library . Under his instruction she mastered...
Intertextuality and Influence Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
The subtitle of this novel (which in earlier centuries had been the title of a bawdy song) here alludes to a proverb about the impossible perfections of maids' husbands and bachelors' children. This first novel...
Textual Production Fanny Kemble
Plays by F.A. Kemble appeared, subtitled An English Tragedy. A Play in Five Acts. Mary Stuart , translated from the German of Schiller . Mademoiselle de Belle Isle, translated from the French of Alexandre Dumas

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1781: The young Johann Christoph Friedrich von...

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1781

The young Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller published his first play, Die Räuber (The Robbers).

1784: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller's...

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1784

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 's tragedyKabale und Liebe (later known in England as Intrigue and Love) was produced and published.

1798-1800: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller published,...

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1798-1800

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller published, in three parts, his historicaltragedyWallenstein.

1801: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller's...

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1801

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 's tragedyMaria Stuart, first produced the previous year, was printed in J. C. Mellish 's English translation as Mary Stuart.

11 September 1801: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller's...

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11 September 1801

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 's tragedyDie Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans) was first produced, in Leipzig, with tremendous success.

19 March 1803: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller's...

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19 March 1803

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 's tragedy The Bride of Messina had its premiere (in German) at Weimar. It was printed the same year.

1804: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller produced...

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1804

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller produced and published Wilhelm Tell, his last completed play.

7 May 1824: Beethoven, despite his complete deafness,...

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7 May 1824

Beethoven , despite his complete deafness, conducted the first performance of his Ninth Symphony in Vienna; it was his final grand-scale work.

Texts

Kemble, Fanny et al. Plays. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1863.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, and Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller. Selections from the dramas of Goethe and Schiller. Translator Swanwick, Anna, John Murray, 1843.