30YW PLAY FINISHED

At last, I have finished Der Löwe aus Mitternacht! Now all I have to do is wait for Frau Oster to correct my mistakes, which will happen sometime this winter.
In my opinion, this is a milestone in my career... being my first large work in Goethe's language. It is a couch/chair drama, meant to be read instead of staged.
If I had to choose some highlights from the play, I would pick these:
PROLOGUE: Written in free verse and narrated, it explains the backstory of it all: Charles V and Luther, Jesuits and electors, Tilly and Wallenstein... to subsequently segue into Scene One, in which Wallenstein is fired (see below).
SCENE 1 (THE REICHSTAG): Wallenstein is fired by the Kaiser. But he doesn't give up. Kind of gives an idea of what this Wallenstein guy is actually like...
SCENE 4 (BREITENFELD): When Tilly tries to reunite his fleeing ranks, he is wounded by enemy officers, who call out the old Walloon's war crimes. The result is sheer badassery on the Protestant side:
Swedish Cavalry Captain (knocks Tilly in the head!): This is for Heidelberg!
Swedish Lieutenant (stabs Tilly in the side): And that's for Magdeburg!
SCENE 6 (ACROSS THE LECH):  The Protestants are throwing a new bridge across the confluence using a smokescreen (clever and well done, Gustavus!). The Catholics are desperate. This is Jean de Tilly's last stand. Like at Breitenfeld, he appears as a cornered rattler ready to strike. As his ranks falter, he says his customary Hail Mary (in Latin!), he crosses himself, he seizes a League flag, and he throws himself headlong into the fray. However, this display of badassery is rather short-lived...
SCENE 7 (RECALLED): If Tilly was the antagonist in Act I, Wallenstein takes the veteran's place in Act II. You thought he was corrupt, mad as a hatter, et cetera. This scene takes place at Friedland, and it shows the parvenu getting mad at the conditions the Kaiser offers:
Wallenstein: [···] Should I be second to that brat of an archduke? And should I play by the rules? That can't be for real!
Thus he writes a letter to the Hofburg, to receive carte blanche. And you bet the Kaiser grants him such a request. Now Wallenstein plus carte blanche equals the fact that whatever may happen...
SCENE 8 (THE ALTE VESTE): Gustavus vs. Wallenstein. The Northern Lion meets his match. Within the fort, Wallenstein sets a trap: to reconquer Leipzig and thus attract the Swedes to get to Saxony in late November. Cue the Swedes amazed upon finding the Alte Feste empty! And cue Gustavus, defeated for the first time in his life, asking for a rematch!
SCENE 9 (THE PARADE): The last farewell to Eleanor. Quite an emotive scene. She is all worried and weeping, as he dries up her tears. I will post the scene later on for you to enjoy and get teary-eyed!
SCENE 10 (LÜTZEN):  Yes, Gustavus is killed in that battle, lost in the fog and riding to his men's aid. But the way I describe it is graphic, violent, beyond comparison.
A Croatian officer, who follows the King closely on horseback: Long time have I sought you! (He shoots Gustavus in the back. The bullet shatters his right shoulder blade, and then punctures his lung. Gustavus falls unconscious off his steed, to be stabbed thrice by Croatians in the chest and back, and receive three shots to the same region. The first wound in his back brings searing chest pain. The Croatians take his clothes, weapons, and accessories as spoils of war, leaving the Swedish ruler in a bloodstained shirt.)
The Croatian officer: Now he's suffered enough. Let me give him the mercy shot! (He shoots Gustavus in the nape of the neck).
The news of the King's death spreads across the battlefield like wildfire, amidst gunshots and clanking of steel. Enter Count Pappenheim, the leader of the Catholic cavalry, who wanted to challenge Gustavus to a duel. He learns what has happened to Gustavus from a Swedish officer, who shoots him in the chest. Another punctured lung: he "drowns painfully and slowly in his own blood", in Wallenstein's encampment.
At the end of the day, the sun sets over a swampy plain littered with lifeless bodies: casualties like Gustavus, Pappenheim, and Berthold von Wallenstein (the Generalissimo's only son) as well as unsung officers and privates. "It is cold for the fallen, cold is the fog, but coldest are the hearts of the few survivors. The Protestants have finally won the battle, but they have lost much more than their liege."
SCENE 11 (WEISSENFELS): In a glass case in a parish church, the hero of freedom is mourned for by officers, privates, and a heartbroken Queen Eleanor (perchance the saddest of them all).
Eleanor (Desperate): Oh, Gustavus! Darling! Without you, I'm so alone! I wither, helpless, on my own!
FINALE: In which Queen Christina and Archduke Leopold decide to set right what their fathers have done wrong. And the moral of the story is delivered: to be considerate towards different beliefs and ideologies.