Schiller, Friedrich von
Schiller, Friedrich von (1759–1805),classical German poet, dramatist, and historian, who wrote one major fairy‐tale play, Turandot, Prinzessin von China (Turandot, Princess of China, 1802), based on Carlo Gozzi's play Turandot (1762). Schiller's tragicomedy concerns the gifted but cruel Princess Turandot of China who will marry only the man who can solve three riddles. A daring prince named Calaf, who is travelling incognito, solves the riddles, but the enraged princess demands a retaliatory trial. Calaf must demonstrate his integrity one more time, and after a near tragedy the princess agrees to marry him.
Jack Zipes
Bibliography
Snook, Lynn, ‘Auf den Spuren der Rätselprinzessin Turandot’, in Jürgen Janning, Heino Gehrts, and Herbert Ossowski (eds.), Vom Menschenbild im Märchen (1980).
Witte, W., ‘Turandot’, Publications of the English Goethe Society, 39 (1969).
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