Love and Intrigue: A Tragedy

About this book

Intrigue and Love, sometimes Love and Intrigue, Love and Politics, or Luise Miller is a five-act play written by the German dramatist Friedrich Schiller. His third play, it was first performed on 13 April 1784 at Schauspiel Frankfurt. The play shows how cabals and their intrigue destroy the love between Ferdinand von Walter, a nobleman's son, and Luise Miller, daughter of a middle-class musician.