Schiller, F: Räuber - Friedrich Schiller

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Excerpt from Die RÄuber: Ein Trauerspiel If in the following pages I have decided in favour of the Theaterausgabe, I was actuated by several motives. Firstly,.it was the version which was most widely Spread in Schiller's lifetime, that on which his reputation was based, and from which all foreign translations were made. It is consequently that which must appeal most strongly to students of comparative literature, whom I chiefly had in mind in preparing this text for publication. Whilst moreover the Schauspiel has been reprinted broadcast, the Trauerspiel is still comparatively unknown and in accessible to wider circles of the reading public: Goedeke's critical edition is not so widely diffused in this country as might be supposed, Boxberger's reprint in the Deutsche national-literatur and that in the reclam-bibliothek suffer from a modernised spelling and the lack of annotation. Finally. I was actuated by the sordid motive (urged upon me with much emphasis by the publishers) that the book must sell. And whilst no school can be expected to put into the hands of its alumni an unexpurgated copy of the 1781 version (and I would prefer not to be responsible for bowdlerizmg Schiller's text), even the severest of Mrs. Grundys could not raise an eyelash at the moral tendencies of the Trauerspiel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.