Faust : a tragedy, parts one and two / Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ; translated by Martin Greenberg.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014Description: 416 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780300189698 (pbk.) :Uniform titles: Faust. English Subject(s): Faust (Legendary character) -- Drama | Literature | LiteratureDDC classification: 832.6 Summary: A classic of world literature, Goethe's 'Faust' is a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humour, and tragedy. Martin Greenberg re-creates not only the text's varied metre and rhyme but also its diverse tones and styles - dramatic and lyrical, reflective and farcical, pathetic and coarse, colloquial and soaring. His rendition of 'Faust' is the first faithful, readable and elegantly written translation of Goethe's masterpiece available in English. At last, the Greenberg 'Faust' is available in a single volume, together with a thoroughly updated translation, preface and notes.
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| 829.3 BEO Beowulf : a verse translation : authoritative text, contexts, criticism / | 830.9006 KIT Discourse networks 1800/1900 / | 832.912 MUM Bertolt Brecht / | 832.6 GOE Faust : a tragedy, parts one and two / | 832.6 SCH Mary Stuart. | 832.9 BRE Mother Courage and her children / | 832.912 BAR Brecht in practice : theatre, theory and performance / |
Translated from the German.
A classic of world literature, Goethe's 'Faust' is a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humour, and tragedy. Martin Greenberg re-creates not only the text's varied metre and rhyme but also its diverse tones and styles - dramatic and lyrical, reflective and farcical, pathetic and coarse, colloquial and soaring. His rendition of 'Faust' is the first faithful, readable and elegantly written translation of Goethe's masterpiece available in English. At last, the Greenberg 'Faust' is available in a single volume, together with a thoroughly updated translation, preface and notes.
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