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'The artist is certainly the child of his age, but all the worse for him if he is at the same time its pupil, even worse its minion.'On the Aesthetic Education of Man is one of the most profound works of German philosophy, in which Friedrich Schiller analyses politics, revolution and the history of ideas to define the relationship between beauty and art. Resulting from Schiller's deep disillusionment with the course of the French Revolution and expressed as a series of letters to a patron, On the Aesthetic Education of Man is an impassioned attempt to drag mankind upwards from failure to greatness through placing ideas of aesthetic education at the heart of the human experience: 'Our era has actually taken both wrong turnings, and has fallen prey to coarseness on the one path, lethargy and perversity on the other. Having strayed along both paths, it is beauty that can lead [us] back.' Schiller's arguments are as arresting, challenging and inspiring today as when they were first written - it is above all one of the great political statements from a time of revolutionary change.

Originally published in 1913, this book contains the German text of Schiller's tragedy Die Braut von Messina, which caused controversy at its debut for its incorporation of a variety of tropes from ancient theatre. Breul includes a long introduction on the history and reception of the play and its relationship with classical drama.

One of European theatre's major plays, Schiller's masterpiece hinges on a brilliantly imagined meeting between Mary, Queen of Scots - focus of simmering Catholic dissent and her cousin Elizabeth, Queen of England, who has imprisoned her. Isolated by their duplicitous male courtiers, the women collide headlong, each wrestling with the rank, ambition and destiny their births have bestowed, against a thrilling background of intrigue, plot and counter-plot.David Harrower's version of Mary Stuart premiered at the Citizen's Theatre, Glasgow, in October 2006.

Originally published in 1896, this book contains the German text for the last drama in Schiller's Wallenstein trilogy, Wallenstein's Tod. The play is introduced in great depth by celebrated German scholar Karl Breul, who also wrote the detailed notes on the play that feature at the end of the volume.

Schiller's masterpiece of power and politics in a new version by Mike Poulton (Morte D'Arthur, Don Carlos) explores the battle between honour and corruption, between truth and betrayal. This new version debuted at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in 2011.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller ranks as one of the greatest figures in European drama and literature.

The third in a series of Schiller plays in the acclaimed translations of Robert David MacDonald. This volume includes MacDonald's translation of Schiller's vast, fascinating final play "William Tell", with its uplifting republican message.

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