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Author Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.

Title Faust : a tragedy : backgrounds and sources, the author on the drama, contemporary reactions, modern criticism / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; translated by Walter Arndt ; edited by Cyrus Hamlin
Edition First edition
Published New York : Norton, [1976]
©1976
©1976

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Description xi, 626 pages ; 22 cm
Series A Norton critical edition
Norton critical edition.
Contents The text of Faust -- Interpretive notes -- The composition of Faust -- Translating Faust -- Reading Faust -- Backgrounds and sources -- The author on drama -- Contemporary reactions -- Modern criticism
Summary This edition includes Parts I and II complete. The backgrounds include the medieval Chapbook, the puppet play, and a surviving fragment of G. E. Lessing's Faust play. The author's plans and sketches, and a rich selection of his letters and comments to Eckermann, trace Goethe's lifelong involvement in the work, as does an analytical table showing the phases of composition. The contemporary reactions show how rapidly Faust came to be seen as a quintessential expression of German Romantic consciousness. The essays have been chosen to help readers perceive and understand Faust's extraordinary thematic and formal complexity--Cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 625-626)
Subject 880-01 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
880-01 גתה, יוהן וולפגנג פון, מחזות
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Faust -- Criticism and interpretation.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
Author Arndt, Walter, 1916-2011.
גתה, יוהן וולפגנג פון, 1916-2011.
Hamlin, Cyrus.
LC no. 75037791
ISBN 0393044246
0393092089
9780393044249
9780393092080
Other Titles Faust. English