Play on Words

full length · drama

Fiesco; or, the Genoese Conspiracy: A Tragedy

by Friedrich Schiller

24 roles (0M / 0F / 24 any) · approx 168–232 minutes · 5 acts

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Characters

Fiesco lead 312 speeches
Moor supporting 112 speeches
Verrina supporting 107 speeches
Gianettino supporting 87 speeches
Bourgognino supporting 69 speeches
Leonora supporting 64 speeches
Calcagno supporting 61 speeches
Julia minor 52 speeches
Zenturione minor 50 speeches
Lomellino minor 48 speeches
Zibo minor 42 speeches
Bertha minor 37 speeches
Sacco minor 25 speeches
Arabella minor 17 speeches
Andreas minor 17 speeches
Asserato minor 15 speeches
German minor 10 speeches
All minor 9 speeches
Mask minor 7 speeches
Rosa minor 5 speeches
Romano minor 5 speeches
Sentinel minor 5 speeches
Sentinels minor 4 speeches
Sentinels At The Gate minor 3 speeches

Read the play

SACCO, with a number of followers. CALCAGNO, meeting him with others.

Calcagno. Andreas has escaped.

Sacco. Unwelcome tidings to Fiesco.

Calcagno. Those Germans fight like furies! They planted themselves around the old man like rocks. I could not even get a glimpse of him. Nine of our men are done for; I myself was slightly wounded. Zounds! If they thus serve a foreign tyrant, how will they guard the princes of their country?

Sacco. Numbers have flocked already to our standard, and all the gates are ours.

Calcagno. I hear they still are fighting desperately at the citadel.

Sacco. Bourgognino is amongst them. Where is Verrina?

Calcagno. He guards, like Cerberus, the passage between Genoa and the sea--an anchovy could scarcely pass him.

Sacco. I'll rouse the suburbs----

Calcagno. I'll away to the market-place. Drummers, strike up! (They march off, drums beating.)

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