P.S. Just read the English version of the Wikipedia article on Schiller, here, which slays me with describing this the following way: Act 2, scene 2 is an anti-British parody that depicts a firing-squad massacre.
… Yeah, clearly the focus of this scene is anti British feeling, and it's a hilarious parody. Seriously, who writes these things?
(A lot of the German Princes - most notoriously the Duke of Wurttemberg and the Prince of Hesse-Kassel - did sell whole regiments to the Hannover Cousins on the British throne in order to fund their luxuries. This is why when I come across US media where there are evil German soldiers (usually, but not always, from Hesse) of both the mortal and the immortal kind about in the US war of Independence, my mind automatically goes back to this contemporary written scene.)
Re: Kabale und Liebe
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Yeah, clearly the focus of this scene is anti British feeling, and it's a hilarious parody. Seriously, who writes these things?
(A lot of the German Princes - most notoriously the Duke of Wurttemberg and the Prince of Hesse-Kassel - did sell whole regiments to the Hannover Cousins on the British throne in order to fund their luxuries. This is why when I come across US media where there are evil German soldiers (usually, but not always, from Hesse) of both the mortal and the immortal kind about in the US war of Independence, my mind automatically goes back to this contemporary written scene.)