Kleist Variations Three Plays

The plays areConcord,a comedy based on Kleist'sThe Broken Jug; The Fall of the Amazons,a tragedy from the KleistPenthesilea;andWannsee,a tragicomedy, Bentley's rendering ofDas Katchen von Heilbronn. Concordis set in a courthouse during the early days of the Republic. Convened to discover who broke an irreplaceable jug symbolic of the chivalric age of Sir Walter Raleigh, Judge Adam's madcap court flounders in hilarious chaos induced by comic lust. The Fall of the Amazonsis the story of Achilles and the Amazon queen Penthesilea. In this pagan play, Bentley explores improbable love, a theme shared byWannsee. Wannseeis a play of pageantry: emperors, counts, dueling knights, a young beauty of seemingly low birth, cherubs, and witches masked in loveliness.Bentley, Eric is the author of 'Kleist Variations Three Plays' with ISBN 9780809316298 and ISBN 0809316293.