“A Monster in Its Breadth and Length”: Schiller’s Wallenstein and the Poetics of Scale

What happens when literary works are expanded or shortened? How does scale relate to literary form, and how do changes in size qualitatively impact a work of literature? This article explores the German play most famous for its gigantic length—Friedrich Schiller’s “dramatic monstrosity” Wallenstein—...

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Published in:Modern philology 2020-08, Vol.118 (1), p.87-106
Main Author: Spoerhase, Carlos
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Drama
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Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von (1759-1805)
Theater criticism
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