Love and Intrigue: A Tragedy

by Friedrich Schiller from 1784

About

Schiller's Kabale und Liebe (1784) is one of the founding works of Sturm und Drang drama: a passionate love affair between a bourgeois musician's daughter and an aristocrat's son is destroyed by the political machinations of a cynical court minister. The play is explicitly political — the aristocratic world's corruption is literally fatal to genuine feeling — and Schiller deploys the domestic tragedy form to make an argument about class oppression that anticipates nineteenth-century social drama. Its directness and emotional intensity make it one of the most accessible of Schiller's plays.

Translated from the original German.

Tragedy Domestic Drama Romantic Intense Moving Passionateen

Love and Intrigue: A Tragedy

Characters: 11
Words: 17.9k
Acts: 5
Duration: ~2 hr 14 min

Characters

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1

FERDINAND

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117

2

LOUISA

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113

3

PRESIDENT VON WALTER

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87

4

WORM

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76

5

MILLER

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57

6

MARSHAL

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48

7

LADY MILFORD

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38

8

MRS. MILLER

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29

34 sections

17.9k words

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Act I

1

Act I. Scene I.

6034:31

2

Act I. Scene II.

8766:34

3

Act I. Scene III.

1961:28

4

Act I. Scene IV.

3072:18

5

Act I. Scene V.—A Chamber in the PRESIDENT.'S House.

5854:23

6

Act I. Scene VI.

3432:34

7

Act I. Scene VII.

8316:14

Act II

8

Act II. Scene I.—A room in LADY MILFORD'S house. On the right of the stage

3993:00

9

Act II. Scene II.—An old valet of the DUKE'S, with a casket of jewels. The

3582:41

10

Act II. Scene III.—FERDINAND VON WALTER. The former.

1.1k8:21

11

Act II. Scene IV.—Miller's House.

3132:21

12

Act II. Scene V.

1881:25

13

Act II. Scene VI.

2662:00

14

Act II. Scene VII.

1190:54

Act III

15

Act III. Scene I.

1.3k10:05

16

Act III. Scene II.

1.1k8:19

17

Act III. Scene III.

180:08

18

Act III. Scene IV.—Room in MILLER'S House.

7725:47

19

Act III. Scene VI.

1.4k10:27

Act IV

20

Act IV. Scene I. Saloon in the PRESIDENT'S House.

500:23

21

Act IV. Scene III.

7485:37

22

Act IV. Scene V.

2071:33

23

Act IV. Scene VI.—A magnificent Saloon in LADY MILFORD'S House.

1661:15

24

Act IV. Scene VII.

6344:45

25

Act IV. Scene VIII.

3132:21

26

Act IV. Scene IX.

2091:34

Act V

27

Act V. Scene I.—Twilight; a room in MILLER'S house.

1.4k10:13

28

Act V. Scene II.

9427:04

29

Act V. Scene III.

740:33

30

Act V. Scene IV.

400:18

31

Act V. Scene V.

4233:10

32

Act V. Scene VI.

1571:11

33

Act V. Scene VII.

1k7:48

34

Act V. Scene VIII.

3702:47

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