Wallenstein

The most famous German historical drama in all versions Comprehensive documentation on the creation and reception of the play Detailed commentaries on the relationship between history and poetry Wallenstein is the most famous historical drama in German literature; it is Schiller's most weighty contribution to Weimar Classicism and, beyond that, to world literature. "Schiller's Wallenstein is so great that for the second time in its kind there is not something similar," Goethe told Eckermann. And when Thomas Mann speaks of a 'giant work' and literary scholars give the trilogy a place next to Goethe's Faust, this reflects the impression that the work is able to evoke due to its greatness and uniqueness. The volume offers not only the first versions, but also other versions, variants, and the Hamburg theater manuscript in its entirety, with which Schiller s.