«Quale cavalleria?» Distrazione ed emancipazione dell’artista nel Principe di Homburg

Heinrich von Kleist's drama Prinz von Homburg is compared with a letter written by the author to his friend Ruehle in december 1805, where history is described like something disturbing the artist and very far from aesthetics. The historical subject of the drama, according to this idea, seems to be as a consequence less important than it is normally considered by scholars: the central issue in the dramatic plot is rather the competition between art and history, represented by the crisis of the main charachter.