Author : Heinrich von Kleist
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 45,74 MB
Release : 1990-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1461724961
Von Kleist’s last work and his masterpiece is an historical tragedy in which a prince’s love for a woman confounds his orders of battle.
Author : Heinrich von Kleist
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,70 MB
Release : 2002-01-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1849439613
'Tell me, please - is this a dream?' The night before he leads his troops into battle, the prince of Homburg strips off his uniform and goes sleepwalking. Moonstruck, his mind races with a young man's fantasies - love, ambition and victory. But when the morning comes, a single reckless act of disobediance sets in motion a chain of events that leads inexorable to the one thing he never dreamt would happen; his own death. Heinrich von Kleist is one of the most enigmatic figures in theatre history. Driven to suicide at the age of 34, he left behind him seven extraordinary plays. Unperformed during his own lifetime, The Prince of Homburg is now regarded as von Kleist's masterpiece and is one of the most mysterious and beautiful plays of the nineteenth century. Neil Bartlett's production opened at the RSC Stratford in January 2002, and transferred to the Lyric Theatre.
Author : Heinrich von Kleist
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1849439028
Heroic commander of the Prussian cavalry, the Prince of Homburg dreams of victory, glory and fame. But reckless disobedience during a crucial military operation leads the Prince into his greatest battle yet. The creative team behind the Donmar’s critically acclaimed production of Life Is A Dream present Von Kleist’s poetic masterpiece, which is considered to be one of the most haunting and beautiful plays of the nineteenth century, exploring honour, courage, ambition and love. Adapted for stage by acclaimed British writer Dennis Kelly, this is an exciting new adaptation of a classic of European literature.
Author : Dennis Kelly
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,93 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Battles
ISBN : 9781350208636
Heroic commander of the Prussian cavalry, the Prince of Homburg dreams of victory, glory and fame. But reckless disobedience during a crucial military operation leads the Prince into his greatest battle yet. The creative team behind the Donmar's critically acclaimed production of Life Is A Dream present Von Kleist's poetic masterpiece, which is considered to be one of the most haunting and beautiful plays of the nineteenth century, exploring honour, courage, ambition and love. Adapted for stage by acclaimed British writer Dennis Kelly, this is an exciting new adaptation of a classic of European literature.
Author : Kuno Francke
Publisher :
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 36,83 MB
Release : 1914
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Robert E. Helbling
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811205634
Nightmare--a politically explosive murder trial in the middle of the Vietnam War.
Author : Heinrich von Kleist
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 48,32 MB
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811228355
An extraordinary masterpiece of German literature, now in a gripping new English translation 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.
Author : Heinrich von Kleist
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 28,89 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780872207431
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.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 30,12 MB
Release : 1896
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Michael Patterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 20,42 MB
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1317266854
First published in 1990. The book surveys of the development of German theatre from a market sideshow into an important element of cultural life and political expression. It examines Schiller as ‘theatre poet’ at Mannheim, Goethe’s work as director of the court theatre at Weimar, and then traces the rapid commercial decline that made it difficult for Kleist and impossible for Büchner to see their plays staged in their own lifetime. Four representative texts are analysed: Schiller’s The Robbers, Goethe’s Iphigenia on Tauris, Kleist’s The Prince of Homburg, and Büchner’s Woyzeck. This title will be of interest to students of theatre and German literature.
