#i was intimidated by this play too though bc it's nearly 200 pages in my copy of his works! which is a p big book

[britneyshakespeare]

don carlos by friedrich schiller is the most wild thing i've read all year and i'm only in act 2

#this is giving me flashbacks to when i read the winter's tale and i was literally slamming my fists and emphatically shaking the book #because i just could not believe the level of DRAMA i was reading (and the craft with which it was written) #i just closed act 2 scene 3 and im like GIRRRRLLLLL #princess of eboli im rooting for you #nobody tell me if something shitty happens w her im having a good time right now #tales from diana #up until act 2 scene 2 i was getting phaedra-meets-prince hal (of the henry iv plays) vibes #but then those next two scenes were CRAAAAZY #and i should mention phaedra by racine is one of my favorite plays #schiller also has a beautiful skill at language if the translations are doing him any justice #i dont know german so im not reading the originals naturally but just. the edition i have. the verse is so beautiful #i also read his mary stuart this year and it was also great but im losing my mind at don carlos #i was intimidated by this play too though bc it's nearly 200 pages in my copy of his works! which is a p big book #but OOOHHHHH my god #im just over 1/3rd through the play and i cant imagine how it gets any wilder #but wooooow. WOWWWW #schiller might be the first non-anglophone writer ive read who ive seen called 'the shakespeare of his culture' #and i actually felt that the comparison like. did justice. #the intensity ive felt reading these 2 schiller plays are very much how i feel reading the greatest shakespeare plays #not that the greatest/most acclaimed writers of other languages ive read arent AS GREAT as shakespeare #but like. molière i'll use as an example bc i love what i've read of him. #he's the most globally well-known french writer of verse plays but that doesn't make him like shakespeare. #he's very much in his own camp of artistic genius. his craft is also very different. the resulting products are super unique #from what is typical of a shakespeare play. #schiller's style AT LEAST FROM THE TWO PLAYS IVE READ very much have the same depth of character #complexity of plot #and grace of verse. #im obsessed! king!