The Diet is revived in this play under the leaership of Walter Furst, and in a minor subplot, Ulrich is spurned by Bertha for his pereceived loyalty to Austria rather than his homeland.
At the start of this work, a fisher boy and a herdsman sing variations on the Ranz de Vaches and are implored for help by Baumgarten, who with his axe had given the Seneschal's bath "a bloody benediction." The title character escapes from captivity during a storm in which his captor makes him a helmsman, and at the end, he refuses sanctuary to Duke John, who had killed the emperor. The Diet is revived in this play under the leaership of Walter Furst, and in a minor subplot, Ulrich is spurned by Bertha for his pereceived loyalty to Austria rather than his homeland. For ten points, identify this Friedrich von Schiller play in which the title marksman kills Gessler and inspires the Swiss people to independence, and which also features an apple being shot from Walter's head.
At the start of this work, a fisher boy and a herdsman sing variations on the Ranz de Vaches and are implored for help by Baumgarten, who with his axe had given the Seneschal's bath "a bloody benediction.
{William Tell} or {Willhelm Tell}