Abstract:Embedded within Kleist's plays and novellas are a number of mini-dramas that reflect, elaborate, and exacerbate the protagonists' experience of disrupted communication. While critics such as Anthony Stephens have explored the importance of such mini-dramas in the novellas, their significance in the plays merits further analysis. This essay examines three dramas -Penthesilea, Die Herrmannsschlacht, and Prinz Friedrich von Homburg -and considers the ways in which these embedded dramas impact upon the dramatic ac… Show more
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