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Faust : A Tragedy, Parts One and Two, Fully Revised / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Martin Greenberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Author.
- Greenberg, Martin, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832--Translations into English.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.
- German drama--18th century.
- German drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (496 p.)
- Edition:
- Fully revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A classic of world literature, Goethe's Faust is a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humor, and tragedy. Martin Greenberg re-creates not only the text's varied meter 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. Â "Greenberg has accomplished a magnificent literary feat. He has taken a great German work, until now all but inaccessible to English readers, and made it into a sparkling English poem, full of verve and wit. Greenberg's translation lives; it is done in a modern idiom but with respect for the original text; I found it a joy to read.†?-Irving Howe (on the earlier edition) Â Â
- Contents:
- Faust
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Translator's Note
- Dedication
- PART ONE. "In the beginning was the Deed!"
- Prelude in the Theater
- Prologue in Heaven
- Night
- Outside the Town Gate
- Faust's Study [I]
- Faust's Study [II]
- Auerbach's Cellar in Leipzig
- Witch's Kitchen
- A Street
- Evening
- Out Walking
- The Neighbor's House
- A Garden
- A Summer house
- Forest and Cavern
- Gretchen's Room
- Marthe's Garden
- At the Well
- The City Wall
- The Cathedral
- Walpurgis Night
- Walpurgis Night's Dream
- An Overcast Day. A Field
- Night. Open Country
- A Prison
- PART TWO. Here on earth Is opportunity enough
- ACT I. A Pleasant Landscape
- ACT I. The Imperial Palace
- ACT I. A Great Hall
- ACT I. A Plea sure Garden
- ACT I. A Dark Gallery
- ACT I. Brightly Lit Halls
- ACT I. Baronial Hall
- ACT II. A High, Narrow, Vaulted Gothic Room
- ACT II. A Laboratory
- ACT II. Classical Walpurgis Night
- ACT III. Before Menelaus's Palace at Sparta
- ACT III. Courtyard of a Castle
- ACT III. Arcadia
- ACT IV. High Mountains
- ACT IV. In the Foothills
- ACT IV. The Rival Emperor's Tent
- ACT V. Countryside with Seashore
- ACT V. Faust's Palace
- ACT V. Dark of Night
- ACT V. Midnight
- ACT V. Great Forecourt of the Palace
- ACT V. Burial
- ACT V. Mountain Ravines
- Notes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-300-19071-9
- OCLC:
- 883377392
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