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The Robbers

by Friedrich Schiller from 1781

About

Schiller's debut play (1781), written at twenty-two while he was a military doctor forbidden to write, is a furious explosion of Storm and Stress energy: two brothers — Karl, who becomes a noble outlaw, and Franz, who usurps the family estate through treachery — embody the Romantic conflict between freedom and convention. The play caused a sensation at its premiere in Mannheim and made Schiller instantly famous; audiences were reportedly overcome with emotion. Beethoven considered it one of the great works of the era. Karl Moor, the Schillerian rebel-hero, became a template for the Byronic figure that would define European Romanticism for decades.

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The Robbers

Characters
35
Words
32.2k
Acts
5
Scenes
1
Duration
~4 hr 1 min

Characters

#CharacterPlayerLines
1
FRANCIS
—
165
2
CHARLES
—
151
3
SPIEGEL
—
76
4
AMELIA
—
67
5
DANIEL
—
65
6
OLD M
—
48
7
HERMANN
—
48
8
SCHWEITZER
—
43

18 sections

32.2k words
#TitleWords
Act I
1
Act I. Scene I.—Franconia.
2k15:14
2
Act I., Sc. 1. Scene II.—A Tavern on the Frontier of Saxony.
4.8k35:48
3
Act I., Sc. 1. Scene III.—MOOR'S Castle.—AMELIA'S Chamber.
1.4k10:36
Act II
4
Act II. Scene I.—FRANCIS VON MOOR in his chamber—in meditation.
8956:43
5
Act II. Scene II.—Old Moor's Bedchamber.
2.1k15:32
6
Scene III.—THE BOHEMIAN WOODS.
6.2k46:17
Act III
7
Act III. Scene I.—AMELIA in the garden, playing the guitar.
6264:42
8
Act III. Scene VIII.
2161:37
9
Act III. Scene IX.
1080:49
10
Act III. Scene II.—Country near the Danube.
2.5k18:24
Act IV
11
Act IV. Scene I.—Rural scenery in the neighborhood of
1020:46
12
Act IV. Scene II.*—Gallery in the Castle.
1.9k14:28
13
Act IV. Scene III.—Another Room in the Castle.
1.2k8:41
14
Act IV. Scene IV.—In the Garden.
5303:59
15
Act IV. Scene V.—A neighboring forest. Night. An old ruined
2.5k19:07
Act V
16
Act V. Scene I. A vista of rooms. Dark night.
3.5k26:14
17
Act V. Scene II.—The scene the same as the last scene of the preceding Act.
1.3k9:28
18
Act V. Scene IX.
4053:02

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