TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kleist,Heinrich von
TI  - Penthesilea
AV  - PT 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons -- Drama
KW  - Kings and rulers -- Drama
KW  - Achilles (Mythological character) -- Drama
KW  - Verse drama
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penthesilea_(Kleist); Release date is 2004-10-01; Thanks are given to Delphine Lettau for finding a huge collection of ancient German books in London; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Penthesilea" by Heinrich von Kleist is a tragedy written in 1808. The play reimagines the mythological Amazon queen who enters the Trojan War to capture Greek warriors as potential husbands—a sacred Amazon tradition. When Penthesilea and the hero Achilles meet on the battlefield, they fall passionately in love. But their mutual desire collides violently with Amazon law, which demands that warriors defeat men in combat before claiming them. A devastating misunderstanding transforms love into fury, leading to a shocking climax that explores the dangerous boundary between passion and destruction. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6648
ER  -