by Heinrich von Kleist · Anaconda · tapa dura · ISBN 9783866471856
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«Der zerbrochene Krug» is the stage comedy by Heinrich von Kleist, published by Anaconda in 2007 in hardcover (95 pages, in German).
Judge Adam must investigate the breakage of Mrs Marthe's valuable jug, found shattered after a stranger fled from the room of her daughter Eve. The more Adam tries to obstruct the investigation, the more evident his contradictions become, with direct humor, robust characters and wordplay.
Subtitled «Ein Lustspiel», the comedy premiered in 1808 in Weimar under Goethe's direction and was originally published in 1811.
It is a common school reading and a classic of German-language stages, for students and fans of classical theater.
Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, short story writer and journalist. His best known works are the theatre plays The Prince of Homburg, Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, The Broken Jug, Amphitryon and Penthesilea, and the novellas Michael Kohlhaas and The Marquise of O. Kleist ended his life in a suicide pact by shooting himself together with a close female friend who was terminally ill.
