The Robbers

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Friedrich von Schiller. The Robbers

SCHILLER'S PREFACE

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE ROBBERS

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

THE ROBBERS. A TRAGEDY

ACT I

SCENE I. – Franconia

SCENE II. – A Tavern on the Frontier of Saxony

SCENE III. – MOOR'S Castle. – AMELIA'S Chamber

ACT II

SCENE I. – FRANCIS VON MOOR in his chamber – in meditation

SCENE II. – Old Moor's Bedchamber

SCENE III. – THE BOHEMIAN WOODS

ACT III

SCENE I. – AMELIA in the garden, playing the guitar

SCENE VIII

SCENE IX

SCENE II. – Country near the Danube

ACT IV

SCENE I. – Rural scenery in the neighborhood of CHARLES VON MOOR'S castle

SCENE II.* – Gallery in the Castle

SCENE III. – Another Room in the Castle

SCENE V

ACT V

SCENE I. A vista of rooms. Dark night

SCENE II. – The scene the same as the last scene of the preceding Act

SCENE VIII

SCENE IX

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AS COMMUNICATED BY SCHILLER TO DALBERG IN 1781, AND SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN USED AS A PROLOGUE.

– This has never before been printed with any of the editions. —

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CHARLES VON M. (in a fit of absence). How now? I should not wonder if your proficiency went further still.

SPIEGEL. I begin to think you mistrust me. Only wait till I have grown warm at it; you shall see wonders; your little brain shall whirl clean round in your pericranium when my teeming wit is delivered. (He rises excited.) How it clears up within me! Great thoughts are dawning in on my soul! Gigantic plans are fermenting in my creative brain. Cursed lethargy (striking his forehead), which has hitherto enchained my faculties, cramped and fettered my prospects! I awake; I feel what I am – and what I am to be!

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