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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. Indeed, since about the beginning of the eighteenth century, there has been persistent suggestion that the apple-shooting incident
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?
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.
William Tell, Swiss legendary hero who symbolized the struggle for political and individual freedom. The historical existence of Tell is disputed. According to popular legend, he was a peasant from Bürglen in the canton of Uri in the 13th and early 14th centuries who defied Austrian authority, was.
Summary. PDF Cite. A storm is rising on Lake Lucerne. The ferryman makes his boat fast to the shore as villager Conrad Baumgarten rushes up, pursued by the soldiers of the tyrannous governor,...
Broad-ranging and accessible introduction to many different aspects of Tell scholarship: the debate over origins, the international spread of the tale in the 18th century, and a presentation of many images of Tell in all of his varieties.
