Wallenstein

Friedrich Schiller · 1799 CE · Play · German · Romantic

Sixteen years into the Thirty Years' War the emperor's supreme commander sits at Pilsen with an army loyal to him rather than to Vienna, sounding out the Swedes while he waits for the stars. His officers sign a pledge whose small print they have not read, his oldest friend carries secret orders, and his daughter loves that friend's son. A trilogy built from the history Schiller wrote as a professor.

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