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• Title: William Tell
• Author : Friedrich Schiller
• Release Date : January 23, 2013
• Genre: Theater,Books,Arts & Entertainment,Sports & Outdoors,Fiction & Literature,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 39267 KB

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A folk hero of Switzerland, William Tell was many things—an assassin, a legend, a lifeguard—but above all, an expert archer. There are several accounts of the Tell legend. The earliest sources (and those from which the famous play are based) mention the account of the apple. As the legend goes, William Tell was known as a strong man and expert with a crossbow. During his life, Gessler, a tyrannical Austrian-equivalent of a mayor to the city of Altdorf, raised a pole in the middle of the village, placed his hat atop it, and ordered the villagers to bow down to it. Around 1307, when Tell visited Altdorf with his son, he refused to bow to the hat. Consequently, he was arrested. Gessler, interested in Tell’s celebrity status, devised a cruel punishment for the hero. Gessler revealed that Tell and his son would be executed, but Tell could redeem his life by shooting an apple off the head of his son, Walter, in a single attempt. With a crowd gathered in the town square, Tell split the apple in half with one shot, embarrassing Gessler, saving his son, providing hope to the people of Altdorf, and boistering his status as expert marksman.

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