"Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair."
- Friedrich SchillerIn the late eighteenth century, Friedrich Schiller was a well-known German playwright, poet, philosopher, and historian. Themes of morality, human nature, and the intricacies of social conventions were frequently examined in his work. The emptiness and futility that revenge brings are reflected in o…