SCHILLER FRIEDERICK
DON KARLOS
Dramatic poem
issue 1
Warsaw 1954, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, p. 359, format: 13x19cm
Don Carlos - a drama in verse in five acts by Friedrich Schiller, written between 1783 and 1787.
The title character is Don Carlos, Prince of Asturias, son of Spanish King Philip II, reigning in the second half of the 16th century. The drama is based very loosely on historical events - the real Don Carlos was a deranged wretch whose mental health was vindicated by centuries of marriages between related Habsburgs (he had only six great-grandchildren instead of the maximum sixteen, for example), rather than a court-harassed idealist in love with a bride taken from him by his father. Nevertheless, most of the people in the drama are historical figures - of the more important ones invented by Schiller, only the Marquis of Posa, an insignificant friend of the infanta at first, turns out by the end to be perhaps the most important character of Don Carlos as an intelligent and altruistic exponent of the author's liberal views.
Several operas have been written based on the play, the most famous of which is Don Carlos, a French opera by Giuseppe Verdi.
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