The End.--Unfinished Plays and Adaptations

A Russian theme chosen--Berlin negotiations--Work on 'Demetrius'--'The
Homage of the Arts'--Last illness and death--The unfinished
'Demetrius'--The historical Dmitri--The original plan modified--Character
of the hero--Poetic promise of 'Demetrius'--'Warbeck'--'The Princess
of Celle'--'The Knights of Malta'--Other unfinished plays--Adaptation
of 'Egmont'--Of 'Nathan the Wise'--Of 'Macbeth'--Of 'Turandot'--Interest
in the French drama--Adaptations from the French.


CHAPTER XXII

The Verdict of Posterity

Schiller a national poet--His idealized personality--Estimate of
Dannecker--Of Madame de Stael--Goethe's 'Epilogue'--Controversy over
Goethe and Schiller--Attitude of Schlegel--Of Menzel--Goethe's
loyalty to his friend--The mid-century epoch--Unreasonable
criticism--Interesting prophecy of Gervinus--Schiller's aesthetic
idealism often misunderstood--Schiller as a friend of the
people--Partisan misconceptions--The enthusiasm of 1859--Epoch of the
philologers--Present opinion of Schiller--Conclusion.




LIVE AND WORKS OF SCHILLER