Wallensteins Lager by Friedrich Schiller

"Wallensteins Lager" by Friedrich Schiller is a dramatic prologue written in 1799. It serves as the opening to Schiller's Wallenstein trilogy, set during the Thirty Years' War in 1633. The play depicts life in the military camp of the powerful general Albrecht von Wallenstein, capturing the voices of common soldiers who praise their commander's leadership and the freedoms he grants them. Tensions rise when troops learn the emperor plans to transfer part of the army to Spanish Habsburg command, setting the stage for the conflict that unfolds in the trilogy's subsequent plays. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805
Title Wallensteins Lager
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallenstein_(trilogy_of_plays) de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallensteins_Lager
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Reading Level Reading ease score: 82.8 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language German
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject Wallenstein, Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von, Herzog von Friedland, 1583-1634 -- Drama
Category Text
eBook-No. 6518
Release Date
Last Update Dec 29, 2020
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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