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The history of German literature makes mention of few men more self-centered and at the same time more unreserved than Heinrich Heine. It may be said that everything which Heine wrote gives us, and was intended to give us, first of all some new impression of the writer; so tha...
The history of German literature makes mention of few men more self-centered and at the same time more unreserved than Heinrich Heine. It may be said that everything which Heine...
3. Chapter 3On the Lower Rhine, where its banks begin to lose their smiling aspect, where the hills and cliffs with their romantic ruined castles rise more defiantly, and a wilder, sterner...
4. Chapter 4As Beautiful Sara opened her eyes they were almost dazzled by the rays of the sun. The high towers of a great city rose before her, and Dumb William, with his oar upright, was s...
5. Chapter 5When Beautiful Sara, after divine service was ended, went down into the courtyard of the synagogue, the Rabbi stood there waiting for her. He nodded to her with a cheerful expre...
6. Chapter 6_Before the walls of Corinth. At the left, halfway up stage, a tent is pitched; in the background lies the sea, with a point of land jutting out into it, on which is built a par...
7. Chapter 7CREUSA. Nay, never doubt it. 'Tis the song he sang When he dwelt here with us in boyhood days. Each time I heard it, joyfully I sprang To greet him, for it meant he was come home.
8. Chapter 8GORA. Say to the king: Medea takes no message from a slave. Hath he aught to say to her, He must e'en come himself. Perchance she'll deign to hear him.
9. Chapter 9GORA. Nay, up! I say, unhappy one, Nor kill me with thy cries of woe! Hadst thou but heeded when I warned, Still should we be at home In Colchis, safe; thy kinsmen yet Were livi...
10. Chapter 10_The outer court of_ CREON'S _palace, as in the preceding act; the royal apartments in the background lie in blackened ruins whence smoke is still curling up; the court-yard is...
11. Chapter 11ISAAC. Back, go back, and leave the garden! Know ye not it is forbidden? When the King here takes his pleasure Dares no Jew--ah, God will damn them! Dares no Jew to tread the ea...
12. Chapter 12GARCERAN. And so before I'm caught, I'll save myself! The girl is beautiful, and is a fool; But love is folly; wherefore such a fool Is more to fear than e'er the slyest was. Be...
13. Chapter 13_Garden in the royal villa. In the background flows the Tagus. A roomy arbor toward the front at the right. At the left, several suppliants in a row, with petitions in their han...
14. Chapter 14_A large room with a throne in the foreground to the right. Next to the throne, and running in a straight row to the left, several chairs upon which eight or ten Castilian grand...
15. Chapter 15_A large room in the castle at Retiro, with one door in the centre and one at each side. Everywhere signs of destruction. In the foreground, at the left, an overturned toilet ta...