Interactivity of Historical Perception and Artistic Objectivation in the Dramaturgy of Friedrich Schiller

The stages of evolution of Schiller’s theatre from The “Robbers” (1781) to “Mary Stuart” (1800) reflected the playwright’s deepening understanding of the dialectical unity of opposites between subjective intentions and objective results. The striker’s nobility of Karl Moor was disgraced by the criminal robbery of the Bohemian robbers of Spiegelberg. The English queen’s sincere desire to be guided by humanistic ideas about justice and to save the life of Mary Stuart was disavowed by the need to preserve the integrity of the state, which forced Elizabeth I to approve the death sentence passed by Parliament on the Scottish queen.