The Maid of Orleans E-Book

Friedrich Schiller

• Herausgeber: Friedrich Schiller
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

Ay, my good neighbors! we at least todayAre Frenchmen still, free citizens and lordsOf the old soil which our forefathers tilled.Who knows whom we tomorrow must obey?For England her triumphal banner wavesFrom every wall: the blooming fields of FranceAre trampled down beneath her chargers' hoofs;Paris hath yielded to her conquering arms,And with the ancient crown of DagobertAdorns the scion of a foreign race.Our king's descendant, disinherited,Must steal in secret through his own domain;While his first peer and nearest relativeContends against him in the hostile ranks;Ay, his unnatural mother leads them on.Around us towns and peaceful hamlets burn.Near and more near the devastating fireRolls toward these vales, which yet repose in peace.Therefore, good neighbors, I have now resolved,While God still grants us safety, to provideFor my three daughters; for 'midst war's alarmsWomen require protection, and true loveHath power to render lighter every load.[To the first Shepherd.Come, Etienne! You seek my Margot's hand.Fields lying side by side and loving heartsPromise a happy union![To the second.Claude! You're silent,And my Louison looks upon the ground?How, shall I separate two loving heartsBecause you have no wealth to offer me?Who now has wealth? Our barns and homes affordSpoil to the foe, and fuel to the fires.In times like these a husband's faithful breastAffords the only shelter from the storm.

Leseprobe

Friedrich Schiller

The Maid of Orleans

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Table of contents

PROLOGUE.

ACT I.

ACT II.

ACT III.

ACT IV.

ACT V.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE.   CHARLES THE SEVENTH, King of France.   QUEEN ISABEL, his Mother.   AGNES SOREL.   PHILIP THE GOOD, Duke of Burgundy.   EARL DUNOIS, Bastard of Orleans.   LA HIRE, DUCRATEL, French Offers.   ARCHBISHOP OF RHEIMS.   CRATILLON, A Burgundian Knight.   RAOUL, a Lotharingian Knight.   TALBOT, the English General,   LIONEL, FASTOLFE, English Officers.   MONTGOMERY, a Welshman.   COUNCILLORS OF ORLEANS.   AN ENGLISH HERALD.   THIBAUT D'ARC, a wealthy Countryman.   MARGOT, LOUISON, JOHANNA, his Daughters.   ETIENNE, CLAUDE MARIE, RAIMOND, their Suitors.   BERTRAND, another Countryman.   APPARITION OF A BLACK KNIGHT.   CHARCOAL-BURNER AND HIS WIFE.   Soldiers and People, Officers of the Crown, Bishops, Monks, Marshals,    Magistrates, Courtiers, and other mute persons in the Coronation    Procession.

PROLOGUE.

A rural District. To the right, a Chapel with an Image of the Virgin; to   the left, an ancient Oak.SCENE I.THIBAUT D'ARC. His Three Daughters. Three young Shepherds,      their Suitors.   THIBAUT.   Ay, my good neighbors! we at least today   Are Frenchmen still, free citizens and lords   Of the old soil which our forefathers tilled.   Who knows whom we tomorrow must obey?   For England her triumphal banner waves   From every wall: the blooming fields of France   Are trampled down beneath her chargers' hoofs;   Paris hath yielded to her conquering arms,   And with the ancient crown of Dagobert   Adorns the scion of a foreign race.   Our king's descendant, disinherited,   Must steal in secret through his own domain;   While his first peer and nearest relative   Contends against him in the hostile ranks;   Ay, his unnatural mother leads them on.   Around us towns and peaceful hamlets burn.   Near and more near the devastating fire   Rolls toward these vales, which yet repose in peace.   Therefore, good neighbors, I have now resolved,