The Prince of Homburg

The night before he leads his troops into battle, the Prince of Homburg strips off his uniform and goes sleepwalking. Moonstruck, his mind races with a young man's fantasies: love, ambition and victory. But when morning comes, a single reckless act of disobedience sets in motion a chain of events that seems to lead inexorably to the one event he never dreamt would happen: his own death. Kleist completed his masterpiece only months before his suicide in 1811. Cruel, surprising, visionary, it is one of the most beautiful and mysterious plays of the nineteenth century.