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Penthesilea: A Tragic Drama Heinrich von Kleist Translated and with an introduction by Joel Agee Illustrated by Maurice Sendak HarperCollins, $30 A.
Das Stück handelt von der Amazonenkönigin Penthesilea und ihrer tragischen Liebesgeschichte zum Halbgott Achilles. Das Stück arbeitet viel mit Botenberichten und Teichoskopien, da vieles auf einem Schlachtfeld geschieht und sich nicht allzu gut auf eine Bühne transportieren lässt, aber trotzdem bleibt es relativ spannend.
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In Heinrich von Kleist’s drama about the Trojan War, Penthesilea (1808), scholars of the past thirty years have discovered a surprising number of new languages and discourses. The drama has been the source of a “rhetorics of feminism” (Jacobs), a “queer notion of language” (Pahl) and an original aesthetics (Chaouli).1 It has also
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Apr 27, 2017 · Summary. Older Views and Interpretations. K leist's oeuvre encompasses some of the most enigmatic works in German literature — and his Penthesilea is unquestionably the most puzzling among them. Here a virgin Amazon queen intends to subjugate Achilles, the most famous of all Greek heroes, in order to have him impregnate her at a nocturnal ...
Nov 25, 1998 · Penthesilea. Hardcover – November 25, 1998. by Heinrich von Kleist (Author), Maurice Sendak (Illustrator), Joel Agee (Translator) 5.0 4 ratings. See all formats and editions.
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KLEIST'S PENTHESILEA AS 'HUNDEKOMODIE' Heute zum ersten Mai mit Vergunst: die Penthesilea, Hundekomodie; Acteurs: Helden und Koter und Fraun. (Heinrich von Kleist)1 This epigram, first published in Kleist's journal Phobus in 1808, has received relatively little attention from scholars. It belongs to a series of broadsides
