Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mieszkowski, Jan

Titel

The Pace of the Attack: Military Experience in Schiller’s Wallenstein and Die Jungfrau von Orleans

Ist Teil von

• Goethe yearbook, 2009, Vol.16 (1), p.29-46

Ort / Verlag

Rochester: North American Goethe Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

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Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]every time a character tries to resolve the discursive confusions that arise in this space of permanent strife, he or she ends up offering contradictory injunctions. The Duke, it is maintained, plays "with treasonous thoughts to the point that his whimsical musings become real.The central evidence for this interpretation is Wallenstein's own soliloquy near the start of the third play of the trilogy, where he asks himself whether he must now carry out the act of insurrection simply because he has permitted himself to enjoy toying "with the idea of becoming the sovereign.24 Yet even in this speech, Wallenstein gives clear voice to doubts about the inevitability of any course of action he may have unwittingly talked his "way into, posing a string of questions to himself that are at once literal and rhetorical. [...]whatever path his internal monologs and external pronouncements may have set out for him to this point, this soliloquy itself may equally well influence his future behavior, i.e., his ruminations on the power of verbal play are potentially just as consequential - or playful - as any of his other proclamations. [...]the hasty, almost hectic quality that characterizes Johanna's undertakings from the start of the play is largely a factor of the speed "with "which she tries to take possession of the insignias and emblems of her mission.After standing by silently in the first two scenes of the Prologue, her inaugural act on stage is to seize a mysterious helmet that has fallen into the hands of the landowner Bertrand: Johanna (rasch und begierig darnach greifend) Gebt mir den HeImI Bertrand Was frommt Euch dies Geräte? [...]this is precisely what happens at the close of the final act, when Johanna, having saved France, sinks down and dies.