Kleist's

Completed a year before Kleist's 1811 murder/suicide pact with Henriette Vogel, it tells of a German prince (a winsome Charlie Cox), an officer who leads the cavalry of the disciplin arian Elector of Brandenburg (the severe, but sometimes amused Ian McDiarmid).

Two German Revolutionary Plays Restaged 2010

But Kleist's play is infinitely more subtle and morally ambiguous than that.

The Prince of Homburg 2010

Kleist's response to the European aftermath of the Revolution, "The Prince of Homburg," at the Donmar in a limpid new version by Dennis Kelly, is a genuine play.

Two German Revolutionary Plays Restaged 2010

Or you can subscribe to a season or a year of their books, which is a really great deal I mean, you're going to buy Breytenbach's book for writers, Intimate Stranger, and Kleist's Selected Prose and a bunch of others anyway, so why not get them all for a good discount and help a valuable publisher keep publishing?

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

Or you can subscribe to a season or a year of their books, which is a really great deal I mean, you're going to buy Breytenbach's book for writers, Intimate Stranger, and Kleist's Selected Prose and a bunch of others anyway, so why not get them all for a good discount and help a valuable publisher keep publishing?

Archipelago! 2009

See in particular Kleist's note to his friend Adolfine von Werdeck in November of 1801 (2: 700).

Notes on 'Essay Title' 2006

He then explores the understanding of linguistic self-affection in Heinrich von Kleist's The Battle of

Article Abstracts 2006

The patriotic link between nation and self, the problem of political philosophy, becomes the dilemma of a subject subtended by linguistic violence — in Kleist's play, Die

Introduction 2006

Unsurprisingly, discussions of Kleist's personal history and his remarks in his private correspondence have led to a wide range of contradictory conclusions about his positions on militarism, nationalism, and patriotism.

Notes on 'Essay Title' 2006

In the final analysis, Kleist's work confronts us with an event of language that is governed by neither a representational nor

Article Abstracts 2005