For 10 points, name this German author of the Wallenstein trilogy and The Robbers.
One poem by this author laments that "no Caesar, no Achilles" appears on stage because the theater likes only what is "domestic and plain." This author of "Shakespeare's Ghost - A Parody" observed "Dearly I love a friend; yet a foe I may turn to my profit" and "Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain." This author of "The Gods of Greece" wrote another poem describing "a mild sentence from the mouth of the final judge!" This author wrote about the doomed love of Ferdinand von Walter and Luise (*) Miller in his play Cabal and Love. In another of his plays, Max Piccolomini (PICK-oh-low-ME-nee) goes to intercede on behalf of soldiers working for a commander who is aided by Illo and Terzky in secret negotiations with the Swedes. Roller and Schweizer join the title group in a play by this man whose plot hinges on Franz Moor banishing his brother Karl. For 10 points, name this German author of the Wallenstein trilogy and The Robbers.
One poem by this author laments that "no Caesar, no Achilles" appears on stage because the theater likes only what is "domestic and plain."
Friedrich Schiller [or Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller]