Penthesilea (Kleist)

Penthesilea (Kleist)

Penthesilea (1808) is a tragedy by the German playwright Heinrich von Kleist. The play, about the mythological Amazonian queen, Penthesilea, is an exploration of sexual frenzy. Goethe rejected the play as "unplayable".

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