Julius of Taranto, also known as Julius of Tarent (German : Julius von Tarent), is a dramatic tragedy by Johann Anton Leisewitz, published in 1774. The play, with its theme of the conflict between two brothers and the woman loved by both, is one of the most characteristic of the Sturm und Drang era.
The play is strongly inspired by Shakespeare, [1] was a favourite of Friedrich Schiller and much acted in Germany in the 1770s. Its central theme is the struggle between the two princes Julius and Guido of Taranto (Tarent in German) for the affections of commoner Blanca.
Like in Klinger's Die Zwillinge, "a dynamic but frustrated man of action," Guido, "is opposed to a more pacific, melancholy figure," Julius. [2]
The Encyclopædia Britannica describes the play as the forerunner of Friedrich Schiller's famous Sturm und Drang masterpiece The Robbers (1781). [3]
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