A speech in which this character declares, “So slender is / The boundary that divideth life’s two paths,” introduced to one language a “winged word” that literally means “eternal yesterday.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character whom the Irishmen Gordon and Butler murder at the end of a play. A trilogy of plays about this character opens with a one-act prologue titled for their “Camp.”
ANSWER: Albrecht von Wallenstein [or Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein or Albrecht von Waldstein; accept The Death of Wallenstein or Wallenstein’s Death or Wallensteins Tod; accept Wallenstein’s Camp or Wallensteins Lager] (“Ewig gestrige” literally means “eternal yesterday,” and in adjectival form is used as something of a synonym for the English word “die-hard.”)
[10e] This author of Wallenstein coined the aphorism “the axe in the house spares the carpenter” in William Tell.
ANSWER: Friedrich Schiller [or Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller] (The original aphorism is “die Axt im Haus erspart den Zimmermann.”)
[10h] This Schiller poem introduced the Classical phrase “eye of the law” into German. This “thought-poem” opens with the motto “Vivos voco. Mortuos plango. Fulgura frango.”
ANSWER: “The Song of the Bell” [or “Das Lied von der Glocke”]
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