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    Wallenstein's Camp: A Play
    Wallenstein's Camp: A Play
    Wallenstein's Camp: A Play
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    Wallenstein's Camp: A Play

    By Friedrich Schiller

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Wallenstein's Camp: A Play
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    Friedrich Schiller

    Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller, ab 1802 von Schiller (* 10. November 1759 in Marbach am Neckar; † 9. Mai 1805 in Weimar), war ein Arzt, Dichter, Philosoph und Historiker. Er gilt als einer der bedeutendsten deutschen Dramatiker, Lyriker und Essayisten.

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      Wallenstein's Camp - Friedrich Schiller

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Camp of Wallenstein, by Friedrich Schiller

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      Title: The Camp of Wallenstein

             A Play

      Author: Friedrich Schiller

      Release Date: October 26, 2006 [EBook #6785]

      Last Updated: November 6, 2012

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CAMP OF WALLENSTEIN ***

      Produced by Tapio Riikonen and David Widger

      THE CAMP OF WALLENSTEIN

      By Friedrich Schiller

      Translated by James Churchill.

      The Camp of Wallenstein is an introduction to the celebrated tragedy of that name; and, by its vivid portraiture of the state of the general's army, gives the best clue to the spell of his gigantic power. The blind belief entertained in the unfailing success of his arms, and in the supernatural agencies by which that success is secured to him; the unrestrained indulgence of every passion, and utter disregard of all law, save that of the camp; a hard oppression of the peasantry and plunder of the country, have all swollen the soldiery with an idea of interminable sway. But as we have translated the whole, we shall leave these reckless marauders to speak for themselves.

      Of Schiller's opinion concerning the Camp, as a necessary introduction to the tragedy, the following passage taken from the prologue to the first representation, will give a just idea, and may also serve as a motto to the work:—

         "Not he it is, who on the tragic scene

         Will now appear—but in the fearless bands

         Whom his command alone could sway, and whom

         His spirit fired, you may his shadow see,

         Until the bashful Muse shall dare to bring

         Himself before you in a living form;

         For power it was that bore his heart astray

         His Camp, alone, elucidates his crime."

      THE CAMP OF WALLENSTEIN.

      DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

      SCENE I.

      SCENE II.

      SCENE III.

      SCENE IV.

      SCENE V.

      SCENE VI.

      SCENE VII.

      SCENE VIII.

      SCENE IX.

      SCENE X.

      SCENE XI.

      THE CAMP OF WALLENSTEIN.

      DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

         Sergeant-Major | of a regiment of      Recruit.

         Trumpeter      | Terzky's carabineers.    Citizen.

         Artilleryman,                Peasant.

         Sharpshooters.               Peasant Boy.

         Mounted Yagers, of Holk's corps.      Capuchin.

         Dragoons, of Butler's regiment.       Regimental Schoolmaster.

         Arquebusiers, of Tiefenbach's regiment.   Sutler-Woman.

         Cuirassier, of a Walloon regiment.     Servant Girl.

         Cuirassier, of a Lombard regiment.     Soldiers' Boys.

         Croats.                   Musicians.

         Hulans.

         (SCENE.—The Camp before Pilsen, in Bohemia.)

      SCENE I.

           Sutlers' tents—in front, a Slop-shop. Soldiers of all colors and

           uniforms thronging about. Tables all filled. Croats and Hulans

           cooking at a fire. Sutler-woman serving out wine. Soldier-boys

           throwing dice on a drum-head. Singing heard from the tent.

                  Enter a Peasant and his Son.

        SON.

        Father, I fear it will come to harm,

        So let us be off from this soldier swarm;

        But boist'rous mates will ye find in the shoal—

        'Twere better to bolt while our skins are whole.

        FATHER.

        How now, boy! the fellows wont eat us, though

        They may be a little unruly, or so.

        See, yonder, arriving a stranger train,

        Fresh comers are they from the Saal and Mayne;

        Much booty they bring of the rarest sort—

        'Tis ours, if we cleverly drive our sport.

        A captain, who fell by his comrade's sword,

        This pair of sure dice to me transferred;

        To-day I'll just give them a trial to see

        If their knack's as good as it used to be.

        You must play the part of a pitiful devil,

        For these roaring rogues, who so loosely revel,

        Are easily smoothed, and tricked, and flattered,

        And, free as it came, their gold is scattered.

        But we—since by bushels our all is taken,

        By spoonfuls must ladle it back again;

        And, if with their swords they slash so highly,

        We must look sharp, boy, and do them slyly.

               [Singing and shouting in the tent.

        Hark, how they

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