![]() ![]() After his friend, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, had returned from his second journey to the Lake of Lucerne in 1779, Schiller started collecting sources. įriedrich Schiller (who had never been to Switzerland, but was well informed, being a historian) was inspired to write a play about the legendary Swiss marksman William Tell by his wife Lotte, who knew the country from her personal experience. Since its publication, Schiller’s William Tell has been translated into many languages. ![]() The play was written by Friedrich Schiller between 18, and published that year in a first edition of 7000 copies. Gioachino Rossini's four-act opera Guillaume Tell was written to a French adaptation of Schiller's play. The story focuses on the legendary Swiss marksman William Tell as part of the greater Swiss struggle for independence from the Habsburg Empire in the early 14th century. William Tell ( German: Wilhelm Tell, German pronunciation: ( listen)) is a drama written by Friedrich Schiller in 1804. ![]() ![]() William Tell from the Schiller Galerie by Johann Leonhard Raab ![]()
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