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For complicated reasons, Goethe and Kleist are travelling across Germany incognito, together with Ludwig Tieck, Wilhelm Schlegel, Madame de Staël, an Italian actress and a black poodle, all disguised as travelling players.
Löhr has fun letting his characters quote from their own (future) works, and he lets himself go a bit imagining what might happen when three major playwrights and the most famous German translator of Shakespeare have to improvise a performance of Hamlet for a rustic audience. The joke palls after a while, though, and the ending has to be very contrived to meet the historical novelist's standard constraint of not actually changing any of the bits of history we know about. ( )