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Thomas Sully
William B. Wood as 'Charles de Moor', 1811
Sully portrays actor William Burke Wood (1779-1861) in character as Charles de Moor in the popular Die Rauber (The Robbers) by the 18th-century German playwright Friedrich Schiller. Just before the turning point of the drama about a noble outlaw (Moor) who has rejected the values of his father, the protagonist rests with his men on a hill overlooking the Danube, musing on the fertility of the past and hopelessness of the future. |