Heinrich von Kleist (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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Heinrich von Kleist considered himself primarily a dramatist, and each of his several plays is recognized in the twentieth century as a masterpiece of its type. Der zerbrochene Krug (1808; The Broken Jug, 1930), Kleist’s comedy of unmasking, is one of the liveliest exhibitions of comic misunderstanding and double entendre in European drama. In Penthesilea (1808; English translation, 1959), Kleist restructures a Greek myth as a psychological tragedy. Das Käthchen von Heilbronn (1810; Cathy of Heilbronn, 1927) and...
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