Abstract
Abstract Schiller-research is quite dissonant with respect to the question whether or not his second play, The Conspiracy (1783), is »republican« in a ›modern‹, political sense. Many readers have concluded that the historiographic approach displayed in the play was utterly implausible. This article summarizes the interpretations on Schiller’s historiographic practice and takes them to a deeper understanding of the political aesthetic the play is set out to expose. A close reading of the animal fable in the play, with a special focus on its anthropomorphic dimension, shows that its political implications are rather diverse and exist side by side – a narrative technique that illustrates formally what has been addressed as a »play with different options«.
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