Friedrich Schiller (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
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In his play The Robbers (Die Räuber) Schiller, then a cadet at the prestigious ducal academy in Stuttgart, created Karl Moor, a young German nobleman who turned rebel to combat the injustices and tyranny of his brother, the Duke, and social ills. For this radicalism the French National Assembly awarded Schiller honorary citizenship in 1792, after Schiller himself had been made a nobleman and begun to distance himself from revolutionary politics. Because The Robbers could not be staged in Stuttgart, it opened in the somewhat more liberal city...
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