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21 mars 2019
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- isbn: 9781783743933
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Europe Enlightenment geographical exploration indigenous population interest in human nature exploration of the self literary and cultural history History Literary Theory & Criticism LIT004130 DSBSujets proches
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Karl S. Guthke, « 10. The Curse of Good Deeds: Schiller’s William Tell », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.uaoqf1
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A Political Play? Wilhelm Tell (1804) – unique in Schiller’s oeuvre in that it is subtitled “Schauspiel”– has always been taken to be the most easily accessible of his plays, appealing primarily, if not exclusively, to children and the Swiss, to opera lovers appreciating the son et lumière as well as to connoisseurs of familiar quotations, and, just possibly, to aficionados of kitsch, be they naive or sophisticated. No wonder at least one critical intellectual, Swiss as it happens, but no dou...