I always found that interesting about the opera "Der Freischütz". It's from 1821, but its portrayal of hunting is surprisingly egalitarian. The main character i

I always found that interesting about the opera "Der Freischütz". It's from 1821, but its portrayal of hunting is surprisingly egalitarian. The main character is a minor nobleman who is terrible at hunting, the opera starts with a commoner being celebrated for winning a hunting competition and ribbing the main character gently for it. The commoner talks about the hunting stories his grandmother told him, too. So commoners hunting couldn't have been implausible to German audiences in 1821, even in quite stratified society.