Play on Words

full length · drama

The Robbers

by Friedrich Schiller

26 roles (0M / 0F / 26 any) · approx 221–305 minutes · 5 acts

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

Characters

Charles lead 140 speeches
Francis supporting 130 speeches
Amelia supporting 88 speeches
Hermann supporting 71 speeches
Spiegel supporting 59 speeches
Schweitzer supporting 53 speeches
Old M supporting 48 speeches
Daniel minor 41 speeches
Raz minor 35 speeches
Charles Von M minor 28 speeches
Roller minor 27 speeches
Old Moor minor 25 speeches
Kosinsky minor 25 speeches
Schwarz minor 22 speeches
Grimm minor 19 speeches
Father Dom minor 13 speeches
Moor minor 10 speeches
Schw minor 9 speeches
Robbers minor 8 speeches
Voice minor 6 speeches
Schuf minor 4 speeches
Schweit minor 4 speeches
Schuft minor 4 speeches
All minor 4 speeches
The Robbers minor 4 speeches
Brutus minor 3 speeches

Read the play

R. MOOR, SCRWETTZER, and KOSINSKY.

R. MOOR. Give me thy right hand, Kosinsky--Schweitzer thy left. (He takes their hands, and stands between, them; to KOSINSKY,) Young man, thou art still pure-amongst the guilty thou alone art guiltless! (To SCHWEITZER.) Deeply have I imbrued thy hand in blood. 'Tis I who have done this. With this cordial grasp I take back mine own. Schweitzer! thou art purified! (He raises their hands fervently to heaven.) Father in heaven! here I restore them to thee. They will be more devoted to thy service than those who never fell. Of that I feel assured. (SCHWEITZER and KOSINSKY fall on his neck with fervor.) Not now--not now, dear comrades. Spare my feelings in this trying hour. An earldom has this day fallen to my lot--a rich domain on which no malediction rests. Share it between you, my children; become good citizens; and if for ten human beings that I have destroyed you make but one happy, my soul may yet be saved. Go--no farewell! In another world we may meet again--or perhaps no more. Away! away! ere my fortitude desert me. [Exeunt both, with downcast countenances.]

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