The Kleist Variations: Three Plays by Eric Bentley

by Eric Bentley

Book Overview

The plays are Concord, a comedy based on Kleist's The Broken Jug; The Fall of the Amazons, a tragedy from the Kleist Penthesilea; and Wannsee, a tragicomedy, Bentley's rendering of Das Katchen von Heilbronn.

Concord is set in a courthouse during the early days of the Republic. Convened to discover who broke an irreplaceable jug symbolic of the chivalric age of Sir Walter Raleigh, Judge Adam's madcap court...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809316285
• ISBN13: 9780809316281
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"