{"product_id":"love-and-intrigue-friedrich-schiller-9781783747399","title":"Love and Intrigue: A Bourgeois Tragedy","description":"\u003cp\u003eSchiller's play \u003cem\u003eKabale und Liebe\u003c\/em\u003e, usually translated into English as \u003cem\u003eLove and Intrigue\u003c\/em\u003e, represents the disastrous consequences that follow when social constraint, youthful passion, and ruthless scheming collide in a narrow setting. Written between 1782 and 1784, the play bears the marks of life at the court of the despotic Duke of W rttemberg, from which Schiller had just fled, and of a fraught liaison he entered shortly after his flight. It tells the tale of a love affair that crosses the boundaries of class, between a fiery and rebellious young nobleman and the beautiful and dutiful daughter of a musician. Their affair becomes entangled in the competing purposes of malign and not-so-malign figures present at an obscure and sordid princely court somewhere in Germany. It all leads to a climactic murder-suicide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLove and Intrigue\u003c\/em\u003e, the third of Schiller's canonical plays (after \u003cem\u003eThe Robbers\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa\u003c\/em\u003e), belongs to the genre of domestic tragedy, with a small cast and an action indoors. It takes place as the highly conventional world of the late eighteenth century stands poised to erupt, and these tensions pervade its setting and emerge in its action. This lively play brims with comedy and tragedy expressed in a colorful, highly colloquial, sometimes scandalous prose well captured in Flora Kimmich's skilled and informed translation. An authoritative essay by Roger Paulin introduces the reader to the play.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs with all books in the Open Book Classics series, this translation is supported by an introduction and notes that situate an old text in its period and help both the student and the general reader read it with ease and with pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Friedrich Schiller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1783747390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781783747399\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Open Book Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d","brand":"Friedrich Schiller","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43938030846207,"sku":"9781783747399","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_b2a86982-d489-451d-8748-ae47a4ebd336.jpg?v=1681433337","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/love-and-intrigue-friedrich-schiller-9781783747399","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}