Play on Words

full length · drama

The Piccolomini: A Play

by Friedrich Schiller · translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

22 roles (0M / 0F / 22 any) · approx 148–205 minutes · 5 acts

Royalty-free Public domain — free to read, perform, and adapt. No licence needed.

Characters

Max supporting 107 speeches
Octavio supporting 104 speeches
Wallenstein supporting 73 speeches
Illo supporting 68 speeches
Questenberg supporting 58 speeches
Terzky supporting 55 speeches
Countess supporting 46 speeches
Thekla supporting 41 speeches
Isolani minor 36 speeches
Butler minor 31 speeches
Duchess minor 21 speeches
Master Of The Cellar minor 16 speeches
Cornet minor 12 speeches
Tiefenbach minor 10 speeches
Neumann minor 9 speeches
First Servant minor 9 speeches
Second Servant minor 9 speeches
Goetz minor 8 speeches
Third Servant minor 4 speeches
Seni minor 4 speeches
Runner minor 3 speeches
Valet minor 3 speeches

Read the play

ILLO (comes out from the second chamber), TERZKY.

Illo. How goes it with young Piccolomini!

Terzky. All right, I think. He has started no object.

Illo. He is the only one I fear about-- He and his father. Have an eye on both!

Terzky. How looks it at your table: you forget not To keep them warm and stirring?

Illo. Oh, quite cordial, They are quite cordial in the scheme. We have them And 'tis as I predicted too. Already It is the talk, not merely to maintain The duke in station. "Since we're once for all Together and unanimous, why not," Says Montecuculi, "ay, why not onward, And make conditions with the emperor There in his own Venice?" Trust me, count, Were it not for these said Piccolomini, We might have spared ourselves the cheat.

TERZEY. And Butler? How goes it there? Hush!

Monologues from this play