Zriny is an abortive copy of Wallenstein; his originality consists in doing _for_ the Emperor, what the latter does _against_ him. Juranitsch is Max Piccolomini the second, but has the misfortune to stand as far _below_ the first as other people who also happened to be seconds, as for example, Frederick the Second, Joseph the Second, etc., stood _above_ their namesakes. In general, _Zriny_ has made it clear to me that Körner, had he lived, would, without any doubt, have become a second Schiller, namely, by completely absorbing the first. The plagiarisms which the noble young man has indulged in, in this tragedy, as regards the disposition of the scenes as well as in whole individual speeches and sentences, surpass all belief. I shall perhaps point out some of these in the course of my investigation of the characters. But before I investigate the claims to heroism of Körner's Zriny may I be allowed to determine what are the qualities absolutely indispensable for a hero. I will not place my demands very high, but circumspection and firmness I may at least be allowed to require, besides mere courage. Also a certain amount of modesty would not become him ill, perhaps we may even demand this of the hero of a drama; for the dramatic poet must not indeed in any sense idealize, but he should render only the genuinely human, not the purely accidental, which, because accidental, is rare. For an individual to be at the same time a hero and a braggart is, however, quite accidental, and the result merely of a deficient or a perverted education. If one wishes to find firmness in the fact that a man knows in advance what he wants, that he forms his decision before he is acquainted with the controlling circumstances, then certainly this quality cannot be denied our Zriny. "His loyalty no nobler guerdon asks Than to seek death, a joyful sacrifice, For his own folk and his undying faith."