{"date":"June 4","id":"06-04","intro":["Spain sent the Duke of Alva to subdue the Netherlands. In quelling disorder he killed the people’s hero, Count Egmont. From this story Goethe made a famous play."],"minutes":13,"readings":[{"author":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe","end":259,"start":253,"volume":19,"work":"Egmont"}],"slug":"june-4","status":"proofread","title":"’Neath the Iron Hand of Spain","url":"/harvard-classics/june-4/","words":2598}