Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

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...

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...

At eighteen, in 1908 (which makes her the same age as her author), she experiences initial social success in Vienna, but her reading of dubious texts (not only Schiller 's Maria Stuart but...