Translator’s Note

This translation of Schiller’s Don Carlos joins Fiesco and Wallenstein in a continuing series of translations, with commentary, of Schiller’s major plays which Open Book Publishers makes freely available to a wide readership. Like those translations, this one addresses itself to young people in college-level instruction and to the general reader. The endnotes therefore undertake to ease a student’s way through an old text. At a basic level, they identify people and places and provide modest a.