Egmont – Goethe & Schiller (1898)

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Egmont – Goethe & Schiller (1898)

S$60.00

Title: Goethe’s Egmont Together with Schiller’s Essays
Author: Goethe, Schiller, Max Winkler (intro)
Publisher: Ginn & Company, 1898
Condition: Hardcover. Pocket size. Introduction in English, text entirely in German. Some annotations in pencil throughout book. Well-bound.

Introduction, notes and preface in English. Actual text of Goethe and Schiller in German.

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This edition contains:

Goethe’s Egmont

Schiller’s Sketch of the Life of Egmont (Des Grafen Lamoral Von Egmont Leben und Tod)

Schiller’s Essay on Goethe’s Egmont (Über Egmont, Trauerspiel von Goethe)

About Goethe’s Egmont (from Wikipedia):

Egmont is a play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which he completed in 1788. In Egmont, Goethe relates the fight of Count Egmont (1522-1568) against the despotic Duke of Alba. Egmont is a famous Dutch warrior and the Duke of Alba represents the Spanish invader. Though under threat of arrest, Egmont refuses to run away and give up his ideal of liberty. Imprisoned and abandoned because of the cowardice of his people, and despite the desperate efforts of his mistress Klärchen, he is sentenced to death.

Thus, faced with her failure and despair, Klärchen puts an end to her life. The play ends on the hero’s last call to fight for independence. His death as a martyr appears as a victory against oppression.

About Goethe (from Wikipedia):

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him are extant. His most famous work is Faust.

About Schiller (from Wikipedia):

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805) was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life, Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish works he left as sketches. This relationship and these discussions led to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism. They also worked together on Xenien, a collection of short satirical poems in which both Schiller and Goethe challenge opponents to their philosophical vision.