Abstract
This chapter explores the process by which Schiller created his Joan of Arc play, examining dramatic works that led up to it, such as Don Carlos and Maria Stuart, as well as the philosophical works, such as Naive and Sentimental Poetry, On the Sublime, and On the Aesthetic Education of Man, all of which contributed to his notion of “sublime sanctity.” Along with these ideas, Pendergast demonstrates that Schiller incorporates Ancient Greek dramatic principles in creating his characters, such as the eidolon represented by the Black Knight, and the notion of the “sympathetic villain” represented by Talbot. Inspired by Euripides, Schiller introduces romance, paternal betrayal, and a rescue almost worthy of a deus ex machina. In Schiller’s alternate version, the enemy soldier who captured her in history becomes the object of her captivated gaze, and instead of being burned as a witch, she dies on the battlefield in sublime sanctity.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsBibliography
Averdy, François de l’. Notice du procès criminel de condamnation de Jeanne d’Arc, dite la Pucelle d’Orléans, tirée des différens Manuſcrits de la Bibliothèque du Roi. Paris: Royal Press, 1790.
Brown, Jane K. Goethe’s Faust: The German Tragedy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Burschell, Friedrich. Schiller. Reinbeck bei Hamburg: Rohwohlt, 1968.
Carlyle, Thomas. Complete Works, vol. X “The Life of Schiller.” New York: John Lovell Co., 1885.
Döring, Heinrich. Friedrich von Schillers Leben aus theils gedruckten, theils ungedruckten Nachrichten, nebst gedrängter Uebersicht seiner poetischen Werke. Weimar: Gebrüder Hoffman, 1822.
Düntzer, Heinrich. The Life of Schiller. Trans. Percy Pinkerton. London: McMillan, 1883.
Ewans, Michael. Opera from the Greek. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2007.
Garland, Henry B. Schiller. New York: Medill McBride, 1950.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Iphigenie auf Tauris. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam, 1926.
———. Iphigenia auf Tauris. Trans. John Prudhoe. Manchester: University Press, 1966.
———. Faust der Tragödie erster und zweiter Teil. dtv-Gesamtausgabe. Band 9. München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1975.
———. Faust: Part One. Trans. David Luke. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Guthke, Karl S. “Die Jungfrau von Orleans.” A Companion to the Works of Friedrich Schiller. Ed. Steven D. Martinson. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 2005.
Hamlin, Cyrus. “‘Interpretive Notes’ and ‘From Goethe’s Correspondence with Schiller, 1794–1801’.” Faust: Norton Critical Edition. New York: Norton, 1976.
Heine, Heinrich. “The Romantic School” and Other Essays. New York: Continuum, 1985.
Kaiser, Gerhard. Von Arkadien nach Elysium. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1978.
Luke, David, and Robert Pick, ed. and trans. Goethe: Conversations and Encounters. Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1966.
Miller, R.D. Interpreting Schiller: A Study of Four Plays. Harrowgate: The Duchy Press, 1986.
———. A Study of Schiller’s “Jungfrau von Orleans.” Harrowgate: The Duchy Press, 1995.
Millot, Claude François Xavier. Universalhistorie alter, mittler und neuer Zeiten Bd. VI. Trans. W.E. Christiani. Leipzig: S.L. Crusius, 1782.
Oellers, Norbert. “‘Und bin ich straffbar, weil ich menschlich war?’: Zu Schillers Tragödie Die Jungfrau von Orleans.” Friedrich Schiller: Zur Modernität eines Klassikers, ed. Michael Hoffmann, 247–61. Franfurt am Main: Insel, 1996.
Passage, Charles. World Dramatists: Friedrich Schiller. New York: Ungar Publishing, 1975.
Schiller, Friedrich. Briefe über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen, Vom Erhabenen, Über die tragische Kunst. Schillers Werke, Vol. 20 Philosophische Schriften. Ed. Helmut Koopman. Weimar: Böhlaus Nachfolger, 1962.
———. Die Jungfrau von Orleans. Schillers Werke Nationalausgabe. Ed. Helmut Koopman, Benno von Wiese and Lieselotte Blumenthal. Weimar: Böhlaus Nachfolger, 1962.
———. Die Jungfrau von Orleans. Ed. Ulrich Karthaus. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam Jr., 1997.
———. Essays. Ed. Walter Hinderer and Daniel O. Dahlstrom. New York: Continuum, 2005.
———. Mary Stuart/The Maid of Orleans: Two Historical Plays. Trans. Charles Passage. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1961.
———. Naïve and Sentimental Poetry: On the Sublime. Trans. Julius Elias. New York: Ungar Publishing, 1966.
———. Schillers Sämtliche Werke. Band 16. Vermischte Schriften (Säkular-Ausgabe). Stuttgart Berlin: J.G. Cotta, 1904.
Sharpe, Lesley. Schiller and the Historical Character: Presentation and Interpretation in the Historiographical Works and in the Historical Dramas. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Southey, Robert. Joan of Arc, an Epic Poem. Bristol: Bulgin and Rosser, 1796.
Ungar, Frederick. Friedrich Schiller: An Anthology for Our Time. New York: Ungar Publishing, 1960.
Wiese, Benno von. Schiller. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1963.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2019 The Author(s)
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Pendergast, J. (2019). Sublime Sanctity: Schiller’s New Tragic Joan. In: Joan of Arc on the Stage and Her Sisters in Sublime Sanctity. Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27889-2_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27889-2_2
Published:
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-27888-5
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-27889-2
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media StudiesLiterature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)