Love and Intrigue: A Tragedy by Friedrich Schiller
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"Love and Intrigue: A Tragedy" by Friedrich Schiller is a five-act play written in 1784. When Ferdinand, a nobleman's son, falls in love with Luise, daughter of a middle-class musician, their forbidden romance faces deadly opposition. Ferdinand's powerful father schemes to marry him off to the duke's mistress instead, while a sinister plot involving false letters and forced oaths threatens to destroy the young lovers' bond. This bourgeois tragedy explores class conflict
and individual freedom against courtly intrigue in eighteenth-century Germany. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805 |
|---|---|
| Title | Love and Intrigue: A Tragedy |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrigue_and_Love |
| Credits | Produced by Tapio Riikonen and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 77.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | Tragedies (Drama) |
| Subject | German drama -- Translations into English |
| Subject | Domestic drama |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 6784 |
| Release Date | Dec 8, 2004 |
| Last Update | Dec 30, 2020 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 657 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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