Schiller: Volume Two

"MacDonalddid more that anyone to rescue Schiller from British neglect" - The Guardian

The second in a series of Schiller plays in the acclaimed translations of Robert David MacDonald. This volume contains a popular Schiller's play, "Don Carlos" - in which the young Don Carlos is locked in a life and death struggle with his father, Philip II of Spain."Includes the plays Don Carlos and Mary Stuart Major historical upheavals of the Sixteenth Century illuminate Schiller's increasingly troubled reaction to the present in these two plays. The huge epic Don Carlos (1787), a 'play expressing a view of life', marries the ideological battle between Philip II of Spain and his son Don Carlos to a gripping narrative. In Mary Stuart (1800), Schiller, sickened by the excesses of a revolution he had once supported, brings together two monarchs - the English Elizabeth Tudor and the Scottish Mary Stuart, cousins who in reality never met - when Mary, falsely accused of conspiracy, finds herself at Elizabeth's mercy."