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Intrigue and Love

Intrigue and Love
Friedrich Schiller Original title Kabale und Liebe (German, 1784)

Intrigue and Love, sometimes Love and Intrigue, Love and Politics or Luise Miller is a five-act play written by the German dramatist Friedrich Schiller . It was his third play. It shows how cabals and their intrigue destroy the love between Ferdinand von Walter, a nobleman's son, and Luise Miller, daughter of a middle-class musician.


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“The lemonade is weak, like your soul.”

Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love), Act V, sc. vii (1784)

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