Abstract
The author aims to shed new light onto Schiller’s idea of the sublime, from his theatrical work, specifically the two plays Die Räuber and Die Jungfrau von Orleans. He attempts to show that Schiller’s plays develop his theoretical writings on the sublime, embodying the concept via the staging of the characters and the different acts. Through this literary experiment, Schiller’s idea of the sublime shows its full strength and originality, based on a triple reconceptualization by means of the theatre. This triple transformation is (1) aesthetic, by the reevaluation of the sublime’s relation to beauty, ugliness and the arts; (2) anthropological, by its questioning of the human and heroic experiences of the sublime; and (3) conceptual, in its questioning and redefining the concept of sublime.
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