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On the work of Schiller as translator and adapter consult A. Koester, Schiller als Dramaturg, Berlin, 1891. An up-to-date French treatise on the early plays is that of Kontz, Les drames de la jeunesse de Schiller, Paris, 1899. Poems. Viehoff, Schillers Gedichte erlaeutert, und auf ihre Veranlassungen, Quellen und Vorbilder zurueckgefuehrt, 7th edition, Stuttgart, 1895.
For seventeen years he had an influential position as "dramaturg" of the Royal Theatre, it being his duty to pass on plays to be performed and to decide upon suitable actors for the parts. It is pleasant to record that the evening of Tieck's long life was made secure from anxieties by a call to Berlin from Friedrich Wilhelm IV., the "Romantic king."
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