PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

The eight hundred copies of the first edition of my ROBBERS were exhausted before all the admirers of the piece were supplied. A second was therefore undertaken, which has been improved by greater care in printing, and by the omission of those equivocal sentences which were offensive to the more fastidious part of the public. Such an alteration, however, in the construction of the play as should satisfy all the wishes of my friends and critics has not been my object.

In this second edition the several songs have been arranged for the pianoforte, which will enhance its value to the musical part of the public. I am indebted for this to an able composer,* who has performed his task in so masterly a manner that the hearer is not unlikely to forget the poet in the melody of the musician.

                        DR. SCHILLER.

STUTTGART, Jan. 5, 1782.

* Alluding to his friend Zumsteeg.—ED.

THE ROBBERS.

A TRAGEDY.

     "Quae medicamenta non sanant, ferrum sanat; quae ferrum non
     sanat, ignis sanat."—HIPPOCRATES.

     DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

     MAXIMILIAN, COUNT VON MOOR.

     CHARLES,|
     FRANCIS,| his Sons.
     AMELIA VON EDELREICH, his Niece.
     SPIEGELBERG,|
     SCHWEITZER, |
     GRIMM,   |
     RAZMANN,  | Libertines, afterwards Banditti
     SCHUFTERLE, |
     ROLLER,   |
     KOSINSKY,  |
     SCHWARTZ,  |
     HERMANN, the natural son of a Nobleman.
     DANIEL, an old Servant of Count von Moor.
     PASTOR MOSER.
     FATHER DOMINIC, a Monk.
     BAND OF ROBBERS, SERVANTS, ETC.

     The scene is laid in Germany. Period of action about two years.