When two tribes go to war, they both know where they stand. But what if a third tribe joined in? That is the confounding scenario of Heinrich von Kleist’s 1808 neo-classical drama. It is a three-way split.
The Greeks have been warring with the Trojans for 10 years, so when the Amazons set upon the Trojans, too, the Greeks assume they have new allies. Not so. The all-female Amazons have vowed to make men their enemies, whatever their stripe. They cannot abide the Greeks either.
