Dramatic works of Friedrich Schiller Author:Friedrich Schiller Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE DEATH OF WALLENSTEIN. DRAMATIS PERSONS. Wallenstf.hi, Jule of Fi-it.dla.nil, Butler, an Irishman, Commander Generalissimo of the Imperial nf a Re... more »giment of Drayoont. Forces in the Thirty Years War. Gordon, Gyvemar of Egra. Duchess Op Friedland, Wife of Majok Geraldin. Vallemtein. Captain Devereux. Tiiekla, her Daughter, Princess of Captain Macdonald. Fried/and. An Adjutant. The Countess Terzky, Sister of the Neumann, Captain of Cavalry, A id Duchess. de-camp to Turzky. Lady Neubrunn. Colonel Wranoel, Envoy fiom tht Ootavio Pioooloshni, Lieutenant- Swedes. General. Rosenburq, Master of Horse. Max. Piccolomtni, his Son, Colonel Swedish Captain. of a Regiment of Cuirassiers. Seni. Count Terzky, lite Commander of Burgomaster of Eyra. itveral Regiments, and Knther-in- Anspessade of the Cuirassiers. late of 'aUfnstein. Groom Op The Chah-) . . Illo, Field Marila.1, WallenHein's Ber, C 'e!f'nj'"iffto Confidant. A Paqe, i "' Duke" Isolani, General of the Croats. Cuirassiers, Dragoons, Sermnts. ACT I, SCKXE I. A Room Jilted vp for astrological laoours, and provided irilh celestial Charts, with Globes, Telescopes, Quadrants, and other mathematical Instruments —-Seven Colossal Figures, representing the Planets, each with a transparent Star of a different colour on its head, stand in a semicircle in the backyround, so that Mars and Saturn are nearest tie eye —The remainder of the Scene, and its disposition, is given in the Fourth Scene of the Second Act.—There must be a Curtain over the Figures, which may be dropped, and conceal them on occasions. [In the Fifth Scene of this Act it must be dropped; but in the Seventh Scene, it must be again drawn up wholly or in part.) Wat.lenstein at a black Table, on which a S...« less