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Friedrich Schiller: Critical Essay by William Witte

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SOURCE: “Ideal Freedom,” in Schiller, Basil Blackwell, 1949, pp. 165-86.

In the following essay, Witte argues that Maria Stuart, Die Jungfrau von Orleans, and Die Braut von Messina embody and illustrate Schiller's idea of the tragically sublime: the triumph of the moral self over the human being's material existence, emotional impulses, and physical nature, or the victory of spiritual freedom over the bondage of the flesh.

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