About the book: 1969 / Historical tragedy based on the real events of the siege of Constantinople by the Normans in 1085. The main character of the tragedy is Robert Guiscard, a Norman duke who terrified the Eastern Roman Empire. Kleist repeatedly destroyed what he had written, and the play was never completed. In 1808, he published a fragment from the play, restored from memory, which is presented in this edition. This fragment is all that remains of "Robert Guiscard"».