Intrigue and Love

Friedrich Schiller · 1784 CE · Play · German · Romantic

The son of a duke's president has fallen in love with a town musician's daughter, and his father means to marry him instead to the prince's cast-off English mistress. The president's secretary, who wants the girl himself, has her parents arrested and offers to free them for one letter written to his dictation. A bourgeois tragedy that put a German court's own machinery on stage.

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• influenced by ↑ Emilia Galotti
  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing · 1772 CE · Play

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• Ruy Blas
  Victor Hugo · 1838 CE · Play

  72% · 14 shared
  PlayTragedyPoliticalRomanceClass & InequalityForbidden LoveBetrayalPower & CorruptionRomanticVillain / TyrantThe Lettervs Societyvs PersonTragic
• Half a Lifelong Romance
  Eileen Chang · 1950 CE · Novel

  68% · 13 shared
  TragedyRomanceClass & InequalityBetrayalDoomed LoversVillain / TyrantFallen WomanTragic ReversalThe Lettervs Societyvs PersonTragicRealist
• The Duchess of Amalfi's Steward
  Lope de Vega · 1618 CE · Play

  65% · 13 shared
  PlayTragedyRomanceClass & InequalityForbidden LoveBetrayalVillain / TyrantTragic ReversalThe Lettervs Societyvs PersonTragicRealist
• Queen Margot
  Alexandre Dumas · 1845 CE · Novel

  63% · 12 shared
  PoliticalRomanceForbidden LoveBetrayalPower & CorruptionRomanticVillain / TyrantTragic ReversalPoisonvs Societyvs PersonTragic
• Five Women Who Loved Love
  Ihara Saikaku · 1686 CE · Short Story

  62% · 12 shared
  TragedyRomanceClass & InequalityForbidden LoveDoomed LoversFallen WomanTragic ReversalThe Lettervs Societyvs PersonTragicRealist
• Edward II
  Christopher Marlowe · c. 1592 CE · Play

  59% · 12 shared
  PlayTragedyPoliticalForbidden LoveBetrayalPower & CorruptionVillain / TyrantTragic Reversalvs Societyvs PersonTragicRealist