The Robbers

“This play must be viewed only as a dramatic story that makes use of all the advantages of the dramatic device: it tracks all the most intimate movements of the soul, and at the same time does not feel constrained by the limits of theatrical presentation, nor does it chase the dubious benefits of stage scenery. It would be a senseless demand to try, within three hours, to fully delineate three such outstanding personalities, whose activities may depend on a thousand springs—just as it would be unnatural for three such individuals to become fully clear even to the most discerning psychologist within the span of a few days. Here, reality presents such an abundance of facts, one after another, that it cannot be forced into the narrow confines of the theories of Aristotle or Batte…”