Because there is no Posa (or a differently named best friend) in any account of the historical Carlos
*nods* Yeeeeep. I mean, I totally buy it, anyway!
It is interesting to me, mind you, that Schiller made Posa a rather ambivalent, somewhat fanatical figure. (Like mildred said, one has to put in creativity somewhere?) And it's doubly interesting with what you say above that Posa in Verdi (circa 1866, so, post-Fontane at least a little, and the further revisions would have had to be post-Fontane) seems to me much more the way mildred_in_midgard describes Katte: wholly dedicated to Carlos and their friendship, with Flanders/progressivism as a shared goal of the two of them. That is, now I wonder whether Fontane's take on Katte had anything to do with it...
also the awareness that having the German states' most famous Monarch publically complain about your first drama is actually great free publicity.
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*nods* Yeeeeep. I mean, I totally buy it, anyway!
It is interesting to me, mind you, that Schiller made Posa a rather ambivalent, somewhat fanatical figure. (Like mildred said, one has to put in creativity somewhere?) And it's doubly interesting with what you say above that Posa in Verdi (circa 1866, so, post-Fontane at least a little, and the further revisions would have had to be post-Fontane) seems to me much more the way
also the awareness that having the German states' most famous Monarch publically complain about your first drama is actually great free publicity.
heeeee that is awesome!