Faust
Subtitle: a tragedy : parts one & two, fully revised
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; translated from the German by Martin Greenberg ; introduction by W. Daniel Wilson
Contributors: Greenberg, Martin, 1918 February 3- translator
Edition: Complete edition.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
ISBN-13: 9780300189698
Subjects: Drama; Translations into English; German drama
Work titles: Faust
Description: A classic of World Literature, Goethe's Faust is a philosophical and poetic drama full of pathos, tragedy, satire, irony, and humor. Martin Greenberg renders not only the text's varied meters and rhymes but also its diverse tones and styles - dramatic and lyrical, reflective and farcical, pathetic and coarse, colloquial and soaring. His translations of Faust has been widely praised as the most faithful, readable, and elegant translation of Goethe's masterpiece in English. Now the Greenberg Faust has been fully updated and is available in a single volume, with an Introduction by Goethe scholar W. Daniel Wilson. -- from back cover.
Notes: "Parts One and Two published separately ... in 1992 and 1998"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.