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Friedrich Schiller's drama 'Intrigue and Love' (originally planned under the title 'Luise Millerin'), published and premiered in 1784, concludes, based on Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's 'Emilia Galotti', the development of bourgeois tragedy in the 18th century - a literary form that breaks with the classicist conception and tragedy and makes problems of the domestic-private sphere and the conflict of classes the subject of the tragic action. In Schiller's 'Intrigue and Love', with its clear structure designed for suspense, criticism of the political conditions in the principalities is practiced in a very direct way: arbitrariness, mistress economy, sale of the country's children. The bourgeois tragedy contrasts the rotten, corrupt world of the nobility with the virtuous but powerless bourgeois sphere. The tragic love story between the nobleman Ferdinand von Walter and the commoner Luise Miller becomes the scene of an unequal struggle against class arrogance and political intrigue.