The dramatic works of Hebbel, who in the final year of his life received the first Schiller Prize ever awarded, were the result of a continuous engagement with Schiller's work. This engagement was by no means one-sided. Hebbel's reception of Schiller is marked by a fascinating ambivalence that moves between critique and appropriation. It appears that even when (or especially if) one tries to write against someone, one ends up writing with them.

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Mingchao Mao, Peking Universität, V. R. China.