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 ...
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Review of Urfaust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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 ...
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italian poet cries
Advantages: beauty
Disadvantages: artificial
...Goethe had himself suffered the torments of the relationship between a poet and his work and the patron who commissioned it. This play traces this problematic relationship as the famous Italian poet Tasso is firstly accepted into court life as a poet but ...
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Review of Tasso - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Da steh ich nun, ich armer Tor und bin so klug...
Advantages: masterpiece of German literature
Disadvantages: need several preconditions, written in old-German
... als wie zuvor
Today I want to tell you something about a pretty famous book, written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. I actually had to read it in the German original version in school. First I want to tell you someting about the autor
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satan vs god
Advantages: a masterpiece
Disadvantages: none
This is the undoubted masterpiece of German literature from the undoubted master of German literature Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It is a remake of the biblical tale of Job, of a God allowing Satan (here Mephisto) to try and lead one of the Lord’s subject ...
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