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A stunning play.

Advantages: this new translation is a lot more stage friendly.
Disadvantages: not that easy to get your hands on it though.

First Published in 1808, Goethe’s Faust is a text most English speakers will only ever encounter in translation. Faust was undoubtedly Goethe's greatest work into which he poured a lifetime of experience - the whole work took him his whole life, as ...

Bryn_Pearson 06.12.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Urfaust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

part one of the great play

Advantages: simple
Disadvantages: none

This is the first version of Goethe’s and German literature’s masterpiece “Faust”. This is a play with a genesis spanning almost 60 years and Goethe was working on it until his death. The “Urfaust” is the first version of this epic drama and represents Go ...

lewiscrofts 17.07.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Urfaust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe