Voted by a Franco-German TV network as ‘the second most important playwright in Europe after William Shakespeare’, Friedrich Schiller is widely revered to as one of the most important classical playwrights of Germany. He managed to conceive new forms of expression in drama like bourgeois tragedy and melodrama. During his lifetime, Schiller formed an intimate and close friendship with the famous writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish many of his incomplete works and their discussions led to the creation of what came to be known as ‘Weimar Classicism'. They also worked on the collection of satirical poems titled, ‘Xenien’. During his lifetime, he authored many papers on philosophy, ethics and aesthetics. Many of his stage plays have been adapted by composers of the 20th century and later. During his earlier days he was trained to be a priest but later obtained a degree in medicine. He initially worked as a regimental physician but later quit the same to watch the opening of one of his plays.