William Tell facts for kids
William Tell was a folk hero from Switzerland. In the story, William Tell is a man who refused to bow down to pole that was set up by an army who had taken over the place where he lived. He was arrested and forced to shoot an apple off his son's head with a crossbow. If he did not, both he and his son would be killed. So he shot the apple off the son's head and did not harm his son. He is considered a legend and his actions helped form Switzerland as a nation.
Adaptions
- Wilhelm Tell (William Tell), a play by Friedrich Schiller
- Guillaume Tell (William Tell), an opera by Gioachino Rossini, based on Schiller's play
Images for kids
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Tell is arrested for not saluting Gessler's hat (mosaic at the Swiss National Museum, Hans Sandreuter, 1901)
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A depiction of the apple-shot scene in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia (1554 edition).
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An allegorical Tell defeating the chimera of the French Revolution (1798).
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Detail from the Statue of William Tell and his son in Altdorf (Richard Kissling, 1895).
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Wilhelm Tell by Ferdinand Hodler (1897)
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William Tell depicted on Tell pattern playing cards
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A 1782 depiction of Tell in the Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zürich.
See also
In Spanish: Guillermo Tell para niños
