Macbeth: Ein Trauerspiel von Shakespear zur Vorstellung auf dem Hoftheater zu Weimar eingerichtet

Tubingen, Germany: J.G. Cotta, 1801. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Published in Tübingen, Germany in 1801 by J.G. Cotta, this copy being a fine exemplar of the First Edition Thus, the first printing in German language using a Roman type-font of Shakespeare's influential exhibition of political intrigue and paranoia. Macbeth (the original, full title having been The Tragedie of Macbeth) was allegedly performed first in 1606, a fine account of the physical and psychological effects that political ambition can have on those who would usurp the throne, in this case, the Scottish general of an English King, urged on by his feckless wife. 161 pp., measuring 5" x 8". Original paper wraps removed, recently rebound in decorated, mottled brown paper over boards, light rubbing to extremities, faint scuffing to tips, spine head and foot. This first printing (in Roman type) was followed by a second printing in the Fraktur type-font later in the same year, 1801. New stiff endpapers, faint remains of blue ink-stamp and erased ink notation to title page, very faint, occasional foxing throughout, moderately waffly text-block, else clean, unmarked and tightly bound. The translator, Friedrich Schiller, sometimes called the “German Shakespeare,” revered the life and work of English playwrites, especially William Shakespeare. His Wikipedia entry notes that Schiller's adaptation of Shakespeare's justifiable classic, Macbeth, was aimed for presentation at the court theater in Weimar, Germany, that is, not in England or Scotland. Friedrich Schiller is well known and respected for his literary works, essays, translations and especially play. Scarce in the trade in this edition, unavailable in libraries, available in Europe only haltingly. Friedrich Schiller (born on Nov. 10, 1759, in Marbach, Germany) grew up poor but was aided by the financial and interpersonal support of a wealthy Duke, who helped Schiller matriculate to a secondary educational facility, where he thrived. Schiller died on May 9, 1805. His entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy notes that Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) "authored an extraordinary series of dramas, including The Robbers, Maria Stuart, and the trilogy Wallenstein. He was also a prodigious poet, composing perhaps most famously the “Ode to Joy” featured in the culmination of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and enshrined, some two centuries later, in the European Hymn." Critics note his close relationship with Goethe and his influence on German stage production and Continental European philosophy. "Between 1791 and 1796," notes the entry "he authored a range of theoretical works that are both sophisticated and original."Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.