Plays: Heinrich von Kleist / Edition 1

by Walter Hinderer

Overview

The four plays presented here, two newly translated for this edition, are The Broken Pitcher, Amphitryon, Penthesilea, and Prince Frederick of Homburg. As E.L. Docotorow says, 'a Kleist play may be set in ancient Greece, in Holland, or in seventeenth century Prussia, but the fortress of consciousness is where the action occurs.'

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826402639
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/01/1982
Series:	German Library , #25
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.75(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword: E.L. Doctorow
 
Introduction: Walter Hinderer
 
THE BROKEN PITCHER
A Comedy
Translated by Jon Swan
 
AMPHITRYON
A Comedy after Moliëre
Translated by Charles E. Passage
 
PENTHESILEA
A Tragedy
Translated by Humphry Trevelyan
 
PRINCE FREDERICK OF HOMBURG
A Play
Translated by Peggy Meyer Sherry