Der Handschuh

The glove is one of the famous Friedrich Schiller's ballads from 1797, the year of friendly rivalry for the better ballads with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It was first published in the book edited by Schiller Musenalmanch for the year 1798.

Content

The achtstrophige ballad is about the abuse of love.

King Francis sits with his entourage on the balcony of the lion garden to see an animal fight. A lion enters the arena, a tiger, two leopards. Then lets Mademoiselle Cunegonde her glove between the big cats fall and asks the knight Delorges, which has long been courting her, to bring him back. To the surprise and dismay of the audience left the knight rises into the arena and takes the glove on. Back on the balcony waiting for him already Mademoiselle Cunegonde with " a tender look of love ", but unexpectedly he gives her the glove in the face and leave it on.

Text

The full ballad is:

Before his lion garden, To expect the fighting game Sass King Francis, And to him the great of the crown, And round high balconies The ladies in beautiful wreath. And as he waves his finger, Left to their doing the wide kennel, And in step with bedächtigem A lion occurs And looks silently All around, With a long yawn, And shake their manes And stretching the limbs And lies down.

And the king waved back, Since opens nimbly A second goal It runs With a wild leap A tiger out. As the beheld the lion, He shouts aloud, fails with the tail A terrible frost And recket the tongue, And shy in circles He bypasses the Leu Grimly purring; Plan he stretches grumbling Go to page down. And the king waved back, Since the spitting double open house Two leopards at once, The plunge with bold Kampfbegier On the tiger animal; The grabs her with his fierce paws, And the Leu with a roar depends on - there 's still is, And around in circles From murder addiction hot, Camps, the abominable cats. That reminds of the arbor edge A glove of beautiful hand Between the Tiger and the Leun Right in the middle. And Knight Delorges mocking Weis ' Turns Miss Kunigund: 'Sir, is your love ' so hot I like your 's vows at any hour, Egg, so to me picks up the glove. " And the Knight in fast running Descend into the terrible kennel With firm steps And from the monsters center If he takes the glove with keckem finger. And with surprise and horror with See 's the knights and noblewomen, And let it bring back the glove. Since he echoes his praise from every mouth, But with tender loving glance - He promises him his approaching happiness - Receives him Mademoiselle Cunegonde. And he throws her glove in the face: [N 1] "To you, lady, I sought not," And she leaves at the same hour.

Construction

Origin

The ballad is preserved in a true story, Schiller was in a band with " Essais historiques sur Paris de Monsieur de Saint- Foix ," published in 1797, where it is said.:

One day when Francis I was watching a fight of his lions, let a lady dropped her glove and said to the knight Delorges: Will you make me believe that you love me, as you swear to me all day, so I lift the glove on! ' the glove was, however, fallen into the den of lions. Delorges climbed down, picked up the glove from the middle of the terrible animals, rose back again, threw him to the lady in the face and wanted to see her again never, despite many requests from their side.

The story is said to have taken place at the court of the French king Francis I, who reigned from 1515 to 1547. In Paris, in the later " Rue des Lions " ( = road of the Lions), he had kept lions that had been used for fighting games. One day when Francis I, together with the court a lion fight was watching, have a lady her glove between the big cats drop as in the ballad.

An early version is also found in the novels Bandellos that Shakespeare also served as a source for his plays, among others.

Other surface finishings

The underlying story also served other authors as a basis for their work. One of the more famous was Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), English essayist and poet. In his poem The Glove and the Lions, he tells the story a little closer to the original than did Schiller. In 1845 the English poet Robert Browning published under the name The Glove in his work Dramatic Romances and Lyrics another version of the fabric.

There is also a setting of the substance (but can also be based on a traditional folk song about the subject ) of the Grateful Dead on their album Terrapin Station from 1977 titled Lady With a Fan The associated English folk song is known by the names: Lady of Carlisle, Sharp # 66 The Bold Lieutenant, The Lion 's Den or The Lady's fan

Robert Schumann set the glove in his Opus 87 Graham Waterhouse composed the text of Schiller in 2005 for cello and speaking voice.