Faust - A Tragedy, Parts One and Two, Fully Revised

"Parts one and two published separately ... in 1992 and 1998"--Copyright page.

About the author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a German poet, novelist, playwright and politician. Martin Greenberg is best known for his translations of Goethe and von Kleist. He won a citation from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and received the Harold Morton Landon Verse Translation Award from the American Academy of Poets. W. Daniel Wilson is Professor of German at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Summary

Presents a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humour and tragedy. This book creates the text's varied metre and rhyme and also its diverse tones and styles - dramatic and lyrical, reflective and farcical, pathetic and coarse, colloquial and soaring.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Greenberg, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Assisted by: W. Daniel Wilson (Introduction), Martin Greenberg (Translation)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.09.2014
• EAN: 9780300189698
• ISBN: 978-0-300-18969-8
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts, Literary studies: plays and playwrights