Intrigue and Love, sometimes Love and Intrigue, Love and Politics, or Luise Miller is a five-act play written by the German dramatist Friedrich Schiller. His third play, it was first performed on 13 April 1784 at Schauspiel Frankfurt. The play shows how cabals and their intrigue destroy the love between Ferdinand von Walter, a nobleman's son, and Luise Miller, daughter of a middle-class musician.
Title page to the first edition, 1784
Konstantin Stanislavski with his soon-to-be wife Maria Lilina, playing Ferdinand and Louise in the Moscow Society of Art and Literature's production in 1889
Lady Milford, 1859 engraving after Arthur von Ramberg
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German polymath and poet, playwright, historian, philosopher, physician, lawyer. Schiller is considered by most Germans to be Germany's most important classical playwright.
Portrait by Ludovike Simanowiz (1794)
Portrait of Friedrich Schiller by Gerhard von Kügelgen (1808/1809)
Medal by Stefan Schwartz [de] to his 100th Death Anniversary, after a sculpture of 1794 by Dannecker, Vienna 1905, obverse
Lithograph portrait from 1905, captioned "Friedrich von Schiller" in recognition of his 1802 ennoblement