Project Gutenberg 2004-12-08 Public domain in the USA. 118 Schiller, Friedrich 1759 1805 Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Friedrich von Schiller, Friedrick The Bride of Messina, and On the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy Reading ease score: 80.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Tapio Riikonen and David Widger "The Bride of Messina, and On the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy" by Friedrich Schiller is a tragedy written in the early 19th century. The play explores the themes of familial conflict, duty, and the tragic consequences of hatred, particularly focusing on the complicated relationships among the members of the House of Messina, including Princess Isabella and her two sons, Don Manuel and Don Caesar, who are in a bitter rivalry fueled by ancient grudges. The opening of the play introduces Isabella, who mourns the death of her husband and fears the resurgence of hatred between her sons, who were raised with a dangerous enmity. As she attempts to broker a peace between Don Manuel and Don Caesar, the stirring presence of the Chorus provides emotional depth, reflecting the tensions within the family. The dramatic tension escalates as Isabella’s hopes for reconciliation clash with the brothers’ violent instincts, foreshadowing a tragic unfolding of events resulting in betrayal, love, and ultimately death. In this complex web of relationships, the arrival of Beatrice, their long-lost sister, becomes a critical turning point that intertwines love and doom, setting the stage for disastrous revelations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Drama PT Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Performing Arts/Film Browsing: Fiction 181065 181068 2024-10-03T10:41:29.127180 2023-10-03T09:30:29.606406 text/html text/html 174526 2020-12-30T00:45:45 text/html; charset=us-ascii 369610 2020-12-30T00:45:45 text/html; charset=us-ascii application/zip 464894 2024-10-03T10:41:38.313089 application/epub+zip 470587 2024-10-03T10:41:33.267142 application/epub+zip 127817 2024-10-03T10:41:31.722141 application/epub+zip 677056 2024-10-03T10:41:40.823116 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 689348 2024-10-03T10:41:37.374160 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 336863 2022-09-03T13:30:21.770807 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 160020 159994 2024-10-03T10:41:28.797178 2023-10-03T09:30:29.391414 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 159675 2020-12-30T00:45:45 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 60782 2020-12-30T00:45:45 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19897 2024-10-03T10:41:40.951075 application/rdf+xml 22848 2024-10-03T10:41:32.383137 image/jpeg 4546 2024-10-03T10:41:32.091187 image/jpeg 459926 2024-10-03T10:41:29.152141 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog de.wikipedia en.wikipedia