6. Kleist’s metamorphoses

Fig. 9 Ernest Julian Stern and Heinz Herald, ‘Penthesilea, Reinhardt und seine Bühne, Bilder von der Arbeit des Deutschen Theaters’, 1919, Wikimedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Penthesilea_ (Kleist)_-_Amazone.jpg, public domain. Gods of the wingèd shoe! With them the silver hounds, sniffing the trace of air! Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These were the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Ezra Pound, ‘The Return’ It has never been .