TY - BOOK ID - 104765387 TI - Wallenstein : a dramatic poem AU - Schiller, Friedrich AU - Kimmich, Flora PY - 2017 SN - 9781783742653 9781783742660 1783742658 1783742666 9781783742677 1783742674 1783742631 9781783742639 9781783742646 178374264X 2821883943 PB - Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, DB - UniCat KW - Wallenstein, Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von, KW - Valdštejn, Albrecht Václav Eusebius, KW - Valdštejna, Albrecht z, KW - Valstein, Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von, KW - Volestain, Alberto di, KW - Von Wallenstein, Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius, KW - Walstein, Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von, KW - Walsteyn, Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von, KW - Waldstein, Albrecht von, KW - Theater KW - Literature German Dutch Scandinavian KW - English translations KW - Europe KW - fiction KW - Germany KW - literary studies KW - theatre KW - translation KW - written literature KW - commentary KW - european literature and history KW - german drama KW - glossary KW - wallenstein trilogy KW - thirty years' war KW - frederich schiller KW - Albrecht von Wallenstein KW - Illo KW - Neubrunn KW - Lower Franconia KW - Questenberg KW - Sweden UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:104765387 AB - By the time Frederich Schiller came to write the Wallenstein trilogy, his reputation as one of Germany's leading playwrights was all but secured. Consisting of Wallenstein's Camp, The Piccolomini and Wallenstein's Death, this suite of plays appeared between 1798 and 1799, each production under the original direction of Schiller's collaborator and mentor, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Across the three plays, which are now commonly performed and printed together, Schiller charts the thwarted rebellion of General Albrecht von Wallenstein. Based loosely on the events of the Thirty Years' War, the trilogy provides a unique perspective on an army's loyalty to their commander and the machinations and intrigues of international diplomacy, giving insight into the military hero who is placed on the threshold between these forces as they are increasingly pitted against one another. The Wallenstein trilogy, formally innovative and modern beyond its time, is a brilliant study of power, ambition and betrayal. In this new translation-the latest in a long line of distinguished English translations starting with Coleridge's in Schiller's lifetime-Flora Kimmich succeeds in rendering what is oft en a difficult source text into language that is at once accessible and enjoyable. Coupled with a complete and careful commentary and a glossary, both of which are targeted to undergraduates, it is accompanied by an authoritative introductory essay by Roger Paulin. Kimmich's translation will be an invaluable resource for students of German, European literature and history, and military history, as well as to all readers approaching this important set of plays for the first time. ER -