Amphitryon is Kleist's play about how Jupiter seduced Alkmene, the wife of Amphitryon, by disguising himself as her husband. Although Jupiter succeeds and leaves behind a pregnancy that will become Hercules, he is frustrated to find out that he did not succeed on his own - he only succeeded because Alkmeme that he was her husband Amphitryon.

In comparison to the other Kleist works, it is actually funny in spots. Because I was so surprised at this, I was curious how this could be and read that Kleist had based this on a play be the same name by Moliere. What I found, however, was that the Kleist play was essentially just a translation of the Moliere piece. The Moliere piece was better. ( )