William tell biography

Berchtold, Alfred.

Guillaume Tell: Résistant et Citoyen du Monde. Geneva, Switzerland: Editions Zoé, 2004.

Berchtold has a short introduction of the Tell legend before Friedrich Schiller but focuses most of his attention on how Schiller’s version changed the uses of William Tell and how later versions of the story evolved.

Bergier, Jean-François.

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Guillaume Tell. Paris: Fayard, 1988.

This “biography” of William Tell is about the memory of a hero, whose actual existence cannot be verified. Bergier attempts to discuss the context from which the William Tell stories arise.

There are three parts: the context of the origins of the Tell story, the testing of the legend, and the transformation of Tell. Bergier allows for the possibility of Tell having existed, though not in the same form as the retellings