Heinrich Von Kleist

Amphitryon

Ein Lustspiel nach Molière

AvHeinrich Von Kleist

Häftad, Tyska, 2014

178 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

Broken Pitcher

A Comedy in One Act

AvHeinrich von Kleist

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

267 kr

Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar

An imperishable gem of German literature, Kleist's The Broken Pitcher is pure comedy. The author's handling of the theme--the judge as culprit--shows supreme mastery. This translation by Bayard Q. Morgan, originally published in 1961, is faithful in form.

Prince Friedrich of Homburg

A New Translation for the American Stage

AvHeinrich von Kleist

Häftad, Engelska, 1978

117 kr

Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar

Available until now only in verse translation, it has been newly rendered for the American stage by Diana Stone Peters and Frederick G. Peters.A work of profound psychological insight, Prince Friedrich of Homburg probes with passionate intensity questions fundamental to “civilized” behavior. Prince Friedrich, the hero of the historic battle of Fehrbellin (1675) against the invading Swedes, receives not laurels for his victory but the sentence of death for disobeying orders in the field. Faced with certain execution, his mood swings from abject terror to high-minded exultation as first he challenges, and then accepts, the rule of law and subservience to the state. The action moves relentlessly in the near-frenzied pace characteristic of Kleist. Intended as a paean to a Prussia triumphant in the Napoleonic wars. the play was, ironically, censured and never produced in Kleist's lifetime. In our own day, Prince Friedrich of Homburg has been both denounced as a protofascist work and lauded as a supreme metaphysical disquisition. Whatever the merits of such intellectualization, it remains one of the most moving and performable plays available for the modern stage.

Michael Kohlhaas

AvHeinrich von Kleist

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

169 kr

Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar

Michael Kohlhaas has been wronged. First his finest horses were unfairly confiscated and mistreated. And things keep going worse—his servants have been beaten, his wife killed, and the lawsuits he pursues are stymied—but Kohlhaas, determined to find justice at all costs, tirelessly persists. Standing up against the bureaucratic machine of the empire, Kohlhaas becomes an indomitable figure that you can’t help rooting for from start to finish. Knotty, darkly comical, magnificent in its weirdness, and one of the greatest and most influential tales in German literature, this short novel, first published in German in 1810, is now available in award-winning Michael Hofmann’s sparkling new English translation.

German Romantic Novellas: Heinrich von Kleist and Jean Paul

AvHeinrich Von Kleist,Jean Paulm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

515 kr

Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar

Kleist: Selected Writings

AvHeinrich Von Kleist

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

283 kr

Skickas

Aiming in his translation for an English haunted and affected by the strangeness of the original, David Constantine offers a wealth of Heinrich von Kleist's key writings in this collection, the most ambitious of its kind.

Kleist: Selected Writings

AvHeinrich Von Kleist

Inbunden, Engelska, 2004

703 kr

Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar

Aiming in his translation for an English haunted and affected by the strangeness of the original, David Constantine offers a wealth of Heinrich von Kleist's key writings in this collection, the most ambitious of its kind.

Prince of Homburg

AvHeinrich Von Kleist

Häftad, Engelska, 1990

115 kr

Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar

Von Kleist's last work and his masterpiece—a story of guilt, innocence, and moral righteousness involving a prince who violates his orders of battle when distracted by a beautiful princess. Plays for Performance Series.