Love And Intrigue
by Laurence Senelick, Friedrich Schiller

“There are truly magnificent scenes and the characters are admirably put into effect.”

-Carl Wilhelm Ettinger (on the first production in 1784) “Schiller's talent was just made for the theater.”

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “If I did not regard Schiller as a great writer, I could not regard myself as a writer at all.”

-Franz Grillparzer (dramatist) “Nowadays, in a time of disoriented search for meaning and the canonization of the profane, Schiller's play is of astonishingly explosive force.”

-Thalia Theatre, Hamburg (2002)