Friedrich Schiller, Wilhelm Tell [William Tell]

Ellis Dye (Macalester College)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

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First circulation or publication 1804

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Germany (Country of Origin)

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Friedrich Schiller’s play

Wilhelm Tell

, first performed in Weimar in 1804, occupies a broader cultural and political space than most literary dramas. More people living today may have made a holiday excursion across Lake Lucerne on the paddle steamer “Schiller” than have seen

Wilhelm Tell

performed, but who has not heard of the bowman who shot an apple off his son’s head, and who could not tongue the overture to Rossini’s 1829 opera

Guillaume Tell

Schiller, whose plays remain staples of German repertory theatre programs, was once celebrated throughout the Western world as a dramatist and thinker of world-wide importance, as statuary in public buildings and parks in the USA and Verdi’s adaptations of Kabale und Liebe (Luisa Miller) and Don Carlos may attest. William Cullen

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Citation: Dye, Ellis. "Wilhelm Tell". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 August 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11148, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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