Its author's academic writing during his tenure as a professor of history at the University of Jena provided much of the material for this play.
Its author's academic writing during his tenure as a professor of history at the University of Jena provided much of the material for this play. A three-part historical drama, it consists of a one-act prelude relating the title hero's rise to power and two five-act tragedies written in blank verse, which reveal the hero's treasonous plot, the subsequent desertion of his troops, and his eventual assassination. First performed in 1798-99, the play portrays the title hero as a man of great courage, but so power-mad that he believes himself above good and evil. FTP, name this Schiller play about the life of a certain general of the Thirty Years War.
Its author's academic writing during his tenure as a professor of history at the University of Jena provided much of the material for this play.
Wallenstein