Amphitryon (Kleist)
Jupiter takes the shape of a Theban general for a night with Alkmene while Mercury holds the door in the shape of the servant, and by morning the real husband is back from the war and cannot get into his own house. Kleist keeps Molière's plot and shifts its weight onto the wife, who is pressed to say which of the two she was loving and finds the question has no floor under it. Subtitled a comedy after Molière, though the laughter runs out early.
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- reworks ↑ Amphitryon (Molière)
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