Penthesilea by Heinrich von Kleist
A brutal, mythic tragedy in which an Amazon queen’s fierce pride and consuming passion collide with a celebrated Greek warrior: she leads her women into battle, becomes obsessed with him, and their erotic attraction turns into a struggle for dominance and recognition. Bound by conflicting codes of love and honor, their encounters escalate from desire to violence, a series of misunderstandings and rival claims to power culminating in a catastrophic, fatal union that destroys them both.
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- Published
- 1808
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- German
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- German
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