Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki’s illustrations to Schiller’s The Robbers (1783)
Act 2, scene 2: Amelia [Amalia] slips up on the slumbering elderly Moor, who is dreaming about his expelled son Charles (Karl): “Hark! Hark! his son is in his dreams.”
Act 2, scene 3: Father Dominic, trying to turn the robbers away from their leader, is so astonished at Charles’s noble-mindedness and magnanimity that he flees: “I shall go mad! I must be gone! Was the like ever heard of?”
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, Illustrationen zu Schiller “Die Räuber” [1783]; Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum; Museums./Signatur DChodowiecki AB 3.540; DChodowiecki AB 3.544.
Translations from Friedrich Schiller’s Works (London 1903).
Act 3, scene 1: Frances (Franz) has just made indecent advances to Amelia, who seizes his sword and threatens him: “Do you see now, miscreant, how I am able to deal with you?”
Act 4, scene 2: Amelia leads Robber Moor (Karl), who is disguised, through the gallery of ancestors, where he lingers before his own portrait: “But this portrait on the right hand? You are in tears, Amelia?”
Act 4, scene 4: Amelia, in the garden, thinks of the stranger: “‘You are in tears, Amelia!’ These were his very words — and spoken with such expression — such a voice!”
Act 5, scene 1: Schweitzer, finding Francis dead and now realizing he cannot keep his promise to bring him back alive to the captain, shoots himself in the head: “He is dead! dead! Go back and tell my captain he is dead as a log. He will not see me again. Blows his brains out.)