Intrigue and Love

Kabale und Liebe
Intrigue and Love
Title page to the first edition, 1784
Date premiered13 April 1784
Place premieredSchauspiel Frankfurt
Original languageGerman
GenreBourgeois tragedy

Intrigue and Love, sometimes Love and Intrigue, Love and Politics, or Luise Miller (German: Kabale und Liebe, pronounced [kaˈbaːlə ʔʊnt ˈliːbə] ; literally "Cabal and Love") 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.