Jungfrau von Orleans Maid of Orleans Friedrich Schiller 1946

1 Item Set or Lot of "Die Jungfrau von Orleans - Eine Romantische Tragodie" by Friedrich Schiller. Includes:

ITEM 1.) Friedrich Schiller; Die Jungfrau von Orleans - Eine Romantische Tragodie: With Notes by Roe-Merrill S. Heffner, Instructor of German, Harvard University; This is a college text containing the complete play in German and the notes in English;

Preface (English); Introduction (English); Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans, German); Notes (English); Vocabulary (German-English with English Introduction);

Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans) was originally published in 1801; Based loosely on the life of Joan of Arc, Champion of Charles, Dauphin of France, in battle against the English and Burgundians; Play was written during the time of Napoleon and loosely anticipates the situation when the crowns of England and Hannover were separated when Victoria became Queen of English, but not of Hannover; How different European History would have been if Hanover (Lower Saxony) had remained an English possession!;

"Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (November 10, 1759 – May 9, 1805), usually known as Friedrich Schiller, was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist. He was born in Marbach, Württemberg (located at the river Neckar in South West Germany, north of Stuttgart, the former Region of Swabia), as the only son, beside five sisters, of military doctor Johann Kaspar Schiller (1733-1796), and Elisabeth Dorothea Kodweiß (1732-1802). On 22 February of 1790, he married Charlotte von Lengefeld (1766-1826). Four children were born between 1793 and 1804, the sons Karl and Ernst, and the daughters Luise and Emilie. The grandchild of Emilie, Baron Alexander of Gleichen-Rußwurm, died in 1947 at Baden-Baden, Germany, as the last living descendant of Schiller. His childhood and youth were spent in relative poverty, although he attended both village and Latin schools, and coming to the attention of Karl Eugen, Duke of Württemberg, entered the Karlsschule Stuttgart (an elite military academy founded by Duke Karl Eugen), in 1773, where he eventually studied medicine. During most of his short life, he suffered from illnesses that he tried to cure himself. While at the arduous school, he read Rousseau and Goethe and discussed Classical ideals with his classmates. At school, he wrote his first play, Die Räuber (The Robbers), about a group of naïve revolutionaries and their tragic failure. In 1780, he obtained a post as regimental doctor in Stuttgart, a job he disliked. Following the performance of Die Räuber in Mannheim, in 1781, he was arrested and forbidden to publish any further works. He fled Stuttgart, in 1783, coming via Leipzig and Dresden to Weimar, in 1787. In 1789, he was appointed professor of History and Philosophy in Jena, where he wrote only historical works. He returned to Weimar, in 1799, where Goethe convinced him to return to playwriting. He and Goethe founded the Weimar Theater which became the leading theater in Germany, leading to a dramatic renaissance. He remained in Weimar, Saxe-Weimar until his death at 45 from tuberculosis. Schiller wrote many philosophical papers on ethics and aesthetics. He synthesized the thought of Immanuel Kant with the thought of Karl Leonhard Reinhold.He developed the concept of the Schöne Seele (beautiful soul), a human being whose emotions have been educated by his reason, so that Pflicht und Neigung (duty and inclination) are no longer in conflict with one another; thus "beauty," for Schiller, is not merely a sensual experience, but a moral one as well: the Good is the Beautiful. His philosophical work was also particularly concerned with the question of human freedom, a preoccupation which also guided his historical researches, such as The Thirty Years War and The Revolt of the Netherlands, and then found its way as well into his dramas (the "Wallenstein" trilogy concerns the Thirty Years War, while "Don Carlos" addresses the revolt of the Netherlands against Spain.) Schiller wrote two important essays on the question of the Sublime (das Erhabene), entitled "Vom Erhabenen" and "Über das Erhabene"; these essays address one aspect of human freedom as the ability to defy one's animal instincts, such as the drive for self-preservation, as in the case of someone who willingly dies for a beautiful idea. A pivotal work by Schiller was On the Aesthetic Education of Man in a series of Letters, (Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen in einer Reihe von Briefen) which was inspired by the great disappointment Schiller felt about the French Revolution. He had hoped that it would be an American-style revolution, leading to the formation of a constitutional republic. Instead, it became a bloodbath. Schiller wrote that "a great moment has found a little people," & wrote the Letters as a philosophical inquiry into what had gone wrong, & how to prevent such tragedies in the future. In the Letters he asserts that it is possible to elevate the moral character of a people, by first touching their souls with beauty, an idea that is also found in his poem Die Künstler (The Artists): "Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge." On the philosophical side, Letters put forth the notion of Stofftrieb ("the sensuous drive") & Formtrieb ("the formal drive"). In a comment to Immanuel Kant's philosophy, Schiller transcends the dualism between Form & Stoff, with the notion of Spieltrieb ("the play drive") derived from, as are a number of other terms, Kants' The Critique of the Faculty of Judgment. The conflict between man's material, sensuous nature, & his capacity for reason (Formtrieb being the drive to impose conceptual & moral order on the world), Schiller resolves with the happy union of Form & Stoff, the "play drive," which for him is synonymous with artistic beauty, or "living form." On the basis of Spieltrieb, Schiller sketches in Letters a future ideal state (an utopia), where everyone will be content, & everything will be beautiful, thanks to the free play of Spieltrieb. Schiller's focus on the dialectical interplay between Form & Stoff has inspired a wide range of succeeding aesthetic philosophical theory. For his achievements, Schiller was ennobled, in 1802, by the Duke of Weimar. His name changed from Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller to Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller."

"Quotations "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." — Maid of Orleans "The voice of the majority is no proof of justice" ";

"Ludwig van Beethoven said that a great poem is more difficult to set to music than a merely good one, because the composer must improve upon the poem. In that regard, he said that Schiller's poems were greater than those of Goethe, and perhaps that is why there are relatively few famous musical settings of Schiller's poems. Two notable exceptions are Beethoven's setting of An die Freude (Ode to Joy) in the final movement of the Ninth Symphony, and the choral setting of Nänie by Johannes Brahms. Giuseppe Verdi admired him greatly and adapted several of Schiller's stage plays for his operas.

Henry Holt & Co.; New York, New York; September 1946 (Originally copyright 1927); ? Edition, 1st Printing(?); Hard Dark Green Cloth Boards; Silver Artwork and Lettering; 326pp;

ISBN: ??????????;

Good Condition; Shows Storage and usage Wear; Endpapers are spotted; Inside is clean, tight and generally unmarked (some pencil notes);

The primary item was part of the collection of Henry J. Hauschild Jr., who billed himself as a “Physiognomist – Bibliopolist – Cognoscente di Eccellentissimo”, and was the very proud owner of the world famous "Nose Gallery” at “The Oldest House” in Victoria, Texas.

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