Schiller's Early Dramas, Vol. 4: Love and Intrigue; Wallestein's Camp; The Piccolomini; Death of Wallenstein (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Schiller's Early Dramas, Vol. 4: Love and Intrigue; Wallestein's Camp; The Piccolomini; Death of Wallenstein

Wallenstein's camp possesses a sort of broad humour, and is not deficient in character; but to have translated it into prose, or into any other metre than that of the original, would have given a false idea both of its style and purport; to have translated it into the same metre would have been incompatible with a faith ful adherence to the sense of the German from the co...