Friedrich Schiller

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (November 10, 1759 – May 9, 1805), usually known as Friedrich Schiller, was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist.

Works

Plays

• Die Räuber or The Robbers (1781)
• Kabale und Liebe or Intrigue and Love (1784)
• Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien or Don Carlos (1787)
• Wallenstein (1800) (translated from a manuscript copy into English as The Piccolomini and Death of Wallenstein by Coleridge in 1800)
• Die Jungfrau von Orleans or The Maid of Orleans (1801)
• Maria Stuart or Mary Stuart (1801)
• Die Braut von Messina (1803),
• Wilhelm Tell or William Tell (1804)
• Demetrius (unfinished at his death)

Histories

• Geschichte des Abfalls der vereinigten Niederlande von der spanischen Regierung or The Revolt of the Netherlands
• Geschichte des dreissigjährigen Kriegs or A History of the Thirty Years' War
• Über Völkerwanderung, Kreuzzüge und Mittelalter or On the Barbarian Invasions, Crusaders and Middle Ages

Translations

• Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis
• William Shakespeare, Macbeth

Poems

• An die Freude or Ode to Joy (1785) which became the basis for the fourth movement of Beethoven's ninth symphony
• The Artists
• The Cranes of Ibykus
• The Bell
• Columbus
• Hope
• Pegasus in Harness
• The Glove