Greek Antiquity in Schiller's "Wallenstein"

Author: Berns, Gisela N.
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1985.
Physical Description: 1 electronic resource (168 pages).

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University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; 104

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English

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Summary

An exploration of the poetic function of Greek archetypes in Schiller's "Wallenstein", this study claims Homer's "Iliad" and Euripides's "Iphigenia in Aulis", the first epic and the last tragic poem about the Trojan War in the Greek tradition, as archetypal sources for Schiller's modern historical drama about the Thirty Years War. In close comparison with Voss's translation of the "Iliad" and Schiller's own translation of "Iphigenia in Aulis", Berns shows how "Wallenstein" compounds echoes of Homeric and Euripidean characters and plots to create a rich horizon of mythical overtones above and beyond the historical world.

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Historical fiction

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9781469656694_Berns

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
National Endowment for the Humanities

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