person
Barbara (Kepler's wife)
Barbara
also: Borbála, Barbara Müller
Eve in the role of Kepler's wife in scene 8; historically Barbara Müller (1573–1611) was Johannes Kepler's first wife. In the drama she is unfaithful and quarrelsome, representing domestic misery contrasted with Kepler's cosmic idealism.
Reading notes
- The Tragedy of Man §8 Barbara / Borbála
Eve in the role of Kepler's wife in scene 8; historically Barbara Müller (1573–1611) was Johannes Kepler's first wife. In the drama she is unfaithful and quarrelsome, representing domestic misery contrasted with Kepler's cosmic idealism.