Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

JW provided two prefaces, one to the poems and one to the plays. The latter calls contemporary German playwrights (Schiller , Goethe , Kotzebue ) contemptible in composition. Her...

AS issued her earliest translation, Selections from the Dramas of Goethe and Schiller.

At home her mother had read to her daughters, while they sewed, Greek and Roman history, and writers like Pope , and Cowper . At four Anna could recite long passages from Milton 's L'Allegro...

AS 's first volume included two plays by Goethe and one by Schiller , plus her introduction.

AS declares at the outset her belief in the progressive development of the human race, and in the contribution that poetry makes to pushing on that development as well as to witnessing and recording it...

In Germany she was celebrated as the author of Delphine. She met with Schiller , Goethe , Henry Crabb Robinson , and Schlegel , whom she persuaded to tutor her three living children.

Here Dora became passionate about Goethe and Schiller , Mendelssohn and Schubert , and about theatre in general.

The Italian has been read as an answer to The Monk by Lewis , a vindication of terror (assaults on the nerves, the strain of threatened but imperfectly perceived danger) against horror (sexual obsession and...

Irish critic Colm Tóibín , who at fourteen used to pretend to be the doomed, charismatic queen, feels that of all the many writers who have treated Mary in fiction, from Burns , Wordsworth ...

After Greystone House, Emmeline Pethick started attending a Quaker school in Weston-super-Mare, where her family had moved. She became a boarder at this school when she was twelve. There one of the incidents...

Both in an Address to the Editor and in a series of explanatory footnotes, AO positions herself on the one hand as a historian with a proper regard for available evidence, and on the other...

The book is divided into four sections: The Astronomer, etc., The Lady Doctor, etc. (from the poem already printed in London Society), Sonnets, and Translations (which come from Schiller , Goethe ,...

She chose an epigraph from Schiller in German, about the dance of the hours. The cover was blue, printed in gold with a trailing spray of leaves and flowers of campanula hederacea, designed by herself...

The introduction also admits Mackenzie's indebtedness to Schiller 's play Die Räuber (1781, translated into English in 1792). She does not name this work, but writes: a very celebrated German author has in his sublime...

Mary Queen of Scots was a great hit with critics. In the Times, Irving Wardle compared the play favourably with Schiller 's Mary Stuart (also playing at the Fringe that year), and the Financial...