Prince Friedrich of Homburg: A New Translation for the American Stage - Softcover

Von Kleist, Heinrich

 
9780811206945: Prince Friedrich of Homburg: A New Translation for the American Stage
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0811206947 ISBN 13: 9780811206945
Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1978

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, who committed double suicide with a terminally ill friend.

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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.

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Verlag
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Erscheinungsdatum
1978
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0811206947
ISBN 13 
9780811206945
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
92
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