At the end of this play, Max Piccolomini is killed while fighting the Swedes, while his father, Octavio Piccolomini, is elevated to the princehood by the emperor, who had feared the military supremacy of the title character.
A scheme by the title character of this work involves getting some nobles drunk and tricking them into signing an oath of loyalty to him. The title character's demise is eventually engineered by Colonel Butler, after which the title character's daughter, Thekla, flees Egra, where the murder occurs. An investigation into the loyalty of this work's title character is begun by the commissioner Von Questenburg, and this work's title character at one point negotiates for the Hungarian crown. At the end of this play, Max Piccolomini is killed while fighting the Swedes, while his father, Octavio Piccolomini, is elevated to the princehood by the emperor, who had feared the military supremacy of the title character. Consisting of three plays, for 10 points, identify this historical drama in which the titular duke of Friedland is assassinated despite his success in prosecuting the Thirty Years' War, written by Friedrich Schiller.
A scheme by the title character of this work involves getting some nobles drunk and tricking them into signing an oath of loyalty to him.
{Wallenstein}