Complex sentence: Friedrich Schiller's drama, "Die Räuber" (1781), provided the groundwork for melodrama to become a recognized dramatic form through a plot portraying the conflict between two aristocratic brothers, Franz and Karl Moor.
Split into simpler sentences: Friedrich Schiller's drama, "Die Räuber" (1781), provided the groundwork for melodrama to become a recognized dramatic form. The plot portrays a conflict between two aristocratic brothers, Franz and Karl Moor.