Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 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.