Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

AML may be said to have married into her husband's job: in the words of theatre historian L. W. Conolly , she sometimes even acted as censor herself. She attended plays, catalogued dramatic manuscripts...

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...

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...

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...

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 ,...

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...

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...

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.

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 .

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