Eight Great Plays by Leonard Peikoff - Lesson 4 of 9
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Ayn Rand counted Friedrich Schiller among the greatest playwrights of the Romantic school. Leonard Peikoff’s analysis of Don Carlos - penned by Schiller at the height of the German Enlightenment - includes such issues as: the myth and reality of the historical Don Carlos; the difficulty of stating the plot-theme in a long, complex play with not one, but two love triangles - and the striking nature of the second triangle; the brilliance of the Grand Inquisitor scene, which Peikoff calls “the greatest, most dramatic, most philosophical scene” in all theater; and Schiller’s attempt to uphold reason and freedom . . . and altruism.
Spoiler alert: The lesson assumes students have read the play.
Recommended translation: Walter Hinderer (ed.), Friedrich Schiller: Plays: “Intrigue and Love” and “Don Carlos.” German Library. Bloomsbury, 1983.
Recorded at The Jefferson School. San Francisco, CA, 1993.
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30 апр 2020
