The Robbers

A play by Friedrich Schiller, first published in 1781, about a gifted man whose unbridled passions and bad companions lead him from crime to crime until he becomes the leader of a band of robbers, culminating in the punishment of vice and the triumph of virtue.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

Topic

Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic plays›German and Dutch plays›Enlightenment and Storm and Stress, 1750 to 1785

Reader

Adults›Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic plays›German and Dutch plays