Jungfrau Von Orleans

Jungfrau von Orleans

by Friedrich Schiller

**Die Jungfrau von Orleans** is a play by German dramatist Friedrich Schiller. The play is based on the life of Joan of Arc, a young French peasant girl who led the French army to victory against the English during the Hundred Years' War. Schiller's play focuses on Joan's religious beliefs, her patriotism, and her tragic death.

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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German playwright, poet, and philosopher. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated,...

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