In medieval Messina the widowed Queen Isabella reconciles her sons Don Manuel and Don Caesar, whose inherited hatred has torn the city apart. Each brother has secretly fallen in love with the same mysterious girl, Beatrice, whose true identity is the play’s dark secret. Schiller adds a chorus on the Greek model and defends the device in his essay printed here.
Schiller’s boldest experiment with classical tragedy, in English verse. Download the free EPUB.