Wilhelm Tell, Friedrich Schiller's last completed play, was staged at the Weimar court theatre in 1804 under Goethe's direction, the final premiere of Schiller's late plays in the theatre's classical repertoire before his death the following year.
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Forbidden by the duke to pursue his literary work, he absconded from W ü rttemberg later that year, and after serving as resident playwright at Mannheim for one year, he moved to Dresden and Leipzig and then in 1787 to Weimar, home of several leading literary figures, chiefly Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .
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William Tell (German: Wilhelm Tell, German pronunciation: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈtɛl] ) is a drama written by the German playwright and philosopher Friedrich Schiller in 1804.
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