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

by Heinrich von Kleist

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811206947
• ISBN13: 9780811206945
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 8.0"