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Analysis. Criticism. Places Discussed. PDF Cite. *Altdorf. Town in Switzerland’s Uri canton on whose public square people are building a prison fortress under duress, and where William Tell...
Wilhelm Tell carried out an order to shoot an apple from his son’s head or that there was a sadistic puppet-governor called Gessler in the service of the Austrians who issued such a diabolical order.
KUONI (to his boy): Look, Seppi, that the cattle have not strayed. SEPPI: I recognize brown Liesel by her bell. KUONI: So we are missing none, she goes the farthest.
Tell and his sons happen to pass by the hated cap. When Tell pays no attention to the authority symbol, he is arrested by two guards who try to bind him and lead him to prison. Although...
Full-text article. Abstract. Authors. PDF. Version française. C an a Swiss foundational legend about a small, Alpine revolt in the early fourteenth century teach us anything about the transnational Age of Revolutions that began in the late eighteenth century?
INTRODUCTION. ForWilliamTell— thelast,andinsomeaspectsthebest, playthatSchillereverwrote— itismorethanprobablethat ...
The story focuses on the legendary Swiss marksman William Tell as part of the greater Swiss struggle for independence from the Habsburg Empire in the early 14th century. Gioachino Rossini 's four-act opera Guillaume Tell was written to a French adaptation of Schiller's play.
