Faustus
Subtitle: From the German of Goethe Translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: November 2, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780199229680
Subjects: Drama texts: 16th to 18th centuries; Plays & playwrights: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; German; Translating & Interpreting; Literary Criticism & Collections / German; European - German; Drama; Faust,; d. ca. 1540.
Description: "The major work of German literature, Johan Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust (1808), was translated into English by One of Britain's most capable mediators of German literature and philosophy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge." "Goethe himself twice referred to Coleridge's translation of his Faust. Because his translation reveals revisions and reworkings of Coleridge's earlier works, his Faust contributes significantly to the understanding of Coleridge's entire oeuvre." "This edition of Coleridge's translation provides the textual and documentary evidence of his authorship, and presents his work in the context of other contemporary efforts at translating Goethe's Faust."--BOOK JACKET.