#philip is an extraordinary villain. so compelling
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His virtue was the brainstorm of a dreamer!
He died a fool. And may his fall pull down
his friend and all his century! We shall see
how they get on without me. For one evening,
the world belongs to me still. [...]
King Philip II of Spain, Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller, Act V scene ii. Translation by Robert David MacDonald.
#this play is really just so magnificent. might be one of my favorite things ive ever read...#schiller did not fuck around with his european history plays#philip is an extraordinary villain. so compelling#posa was an excellent martyr#carlos is a wonderfully incompetent doomed protagonist#im obsesseddddd#schiller#friedrich schiller#german literature#philip ii of spain#don carlos#poetry#iambic pentameter#blank verse#verse plays#robert david macdonald
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