Translator’s Note

This attempt at Schiller’s Wallenstein seeks to bring that extraordinary trilogy to young people in college-level instruction and to the general reader. It joins Fiesco in a growing series of translations, with commentary, of Schiller’s major plays, which Open Book Publishers makes freely available to a wide readership. Endnotes add brief information to clarify the many historical references in the text; they comment on the rare obscurities and repeatedly they call attention to a web of inter..