Schiller

The year 2005 marks the bicentenary of the death of one of the greatestigures in German literature. Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was a playwright,oet, historian and literary critic. Together with Goethe, whose friend andolleague he became, Schiller established the German language and itsiterature as essential components of European culture. His plays, includingallenstein, Maria Stuart and Wilhelm Tell, have been translated anderformed all over the world. This compact biography, in the Life & Timeseries, draws liberally on Schiller's correspondence and on contemporaryecords. It places Schiller in the context of a rapidly changing Germany,ith its many small, semi-feudal principalities confronting the tide of newdeas from revolutionary France, an increasingly confident middle class and arowing sense of German national identity. The book is illustrated throughoutn colour and monochrome.