Anthony Stephens is Head of the School of Languages and Professor of German, University of Melbourne.

'...written by an author whose competence and sovereignty in dealing with Kleist's text is apparent in each line.'AUMLA'Anthony Stephen's monograph is the first comprehensive study of the plays and stories to have appeared in English for some time. [...[ he offers several genuinely novel and challenging perspectives on Kleists's work. [...][...]Anthony Stephens has produced an intriguing and highly accessible study'.MLR'enters into an informative dialogue with the wealth of previous criticism, but S's own insights and theories are original and well-argued. [...] This work is a standard for Kleist research and invaluable as a student handbook.'Modern Humanities Research Association

• Die Familie Schroffenstein; Robert Guiskard; Der zerbrochne Krug; Amphitryon; Penthesilea; Das Kaethchen von Heilbronn; Die Hermannsschlacht; Prinz Friedrich von Homburg; Das Erdbeben in Chili / Die Verlobung in St Domingo; Die Marquise von O... / Der Findling; Der Zweikampf / Michael Kohlhass; Die Heilige Caecilie / Das Bettelweib von Locarno; Ueber das Marionettentheater.