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Article: Schiller and the Mannheim National Theatre.
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Schiller and the Mannheim National Theatre by Lesley Sharpe.
This article analyses Friedrich Sehiller's unhappy relationship with the Mannheim National Theatre from 1783 to 1784. It investigates the influences on and the development of the repertoire at the theatre, including the rise of Musiktheater during the 1770s, in order to demonstrate the extent to which the theatre's style and direction ran counter to Schiller's own dramatic instincts It explores the efforts he made to meet the theatre's requirement, for example by emphasizing his debt to Lessing, and the reasons for his rivalry with August Wilhelm Iffland.
As is well known, Schiller's ...