Faust: The Prologues and Part One
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"Faust, Goethe's monumental poetic drama of man's search for the meaning of life, is, like Dante's Divine Comedy and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, one of the chief cornerstones of Western literature. Based upon the folk legend of Doctor Faustus, who sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for material advantage, Goethe's Faust goes far beyond the traditional plot and becomes a searching philosophical inquiry into human values and human nature.
"Essentially modern in spirit, Faust, the hero of the tragedy, is conceived by Goethe in the image of a Renaissance man who seeks control of his own nature and the world itself. Part I, the best-known portion of the play, describes Faust's failure to achieve this power and the destruction of the innocent Margarete to which both Faust and Mephistopheles contribute.
"This edition offers a partial modernization of the Bayard Taylor translation, which can give the reader a more accurate impression of the distinctive formal features of Goethe's text than any other English version. The translation has been carefully revised by Stuart Atkins, whose critical essay introduces the drama. Professor Atkins has also provided a Bibliographical Note, a resume of Part II, and Notes on the text."
"Faust, Goethe's monumental poetic drama of man's search for the meaning of life, is, like Dante's Divine Comedy and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, one of the chief cornerstones of Western literature. Based upon the folk legend of Doctor Faustus, who sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for material advantage, Goethe's Faust goes far beyond the traditional plot and becomes a searching philosophical inquiry into human values and human nature.
"Essentially modern in spirit, Faust, the hero of the tragedy, is conceived by Goethe in the image of a Renaissance man who seeks control of his own nature and the world itself. Part I, the best-known portion of the play, describes Faust's failure to achieve this power and the destruction of the innocent Margarete to which both Faust and Mephistopheles contribute.
"This edition offers a partial modernization of the Bayard Taylor translation, which can give the reader a more accurate impression of the distinctive formal features of Goethe's text than any other English version. The translation has been carefully revised by Stuart Atkins, whose critical essay introduces the drama. Professor Atkins has also provided a Bibliographical Note, a resume of Part II, and Notes on the text."
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