Schiller's Wilhelm Tell The National Play of Switzerland?
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| Publication date | 2018 |
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| Book title | Reconsidering National Plays in Europe |
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| Pages (from-to) | 53-84 |
| Number of pages | 32 |
| Publisher | Cham: Palgrave Macmillan |
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| Abstract | Huwiler also takes Friedrich Schiller’ Theatre as a moral institution as a point of departure, but continues studying a play written in Schiller’s post-revolutionary period: Wilhelm Tell 1804). While examining two contrasting performance traditions—a critical and an affirmative one—, Huwiler shows how this German play, centring on a Swiss folk hero, is supremely apt for taking the temperature of the nation and reading off the changes to its self-image and how it has developed into the national play of Switzerland. |
| Document type | Chapter |
| Language | English |
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75334-8_3
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