Early verse drama and prose plays
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Early verse drama and prose plays
（Goethe's collected works, v.7）（Princeton paperbacks）
Princeton University Press, 1995
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Description
Goethe's early plays bear witness to his urgent desire to enliven German theater--an ambition that followed him to the National Theater in Weimar, where he was named director in the early 1790s. This volume contains eight of these plays, written between 1771 and 1787. Not only do they demonstrate Goethe's unprecedented versatility in experimenting with new forms of dramatic expression, but they also give insight into his development from Sturm und Drang to classicism. These works include prose plays (Goetz von Berlichingen with the Iron Hand and Egmont), tragedies and comedies (Clavigo, Stella, and Brother and Sister), and dramatic verse forms (Prometheus, Jery and Betty, and Proserpina).
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Prefatory Note ix THE GREAT PROSE PLAYS Goetz von Berlichingen with the Iron Hand (translated by Cyrus Hamlin) 1 Egmont (translated by Michael Hamburger) 83 EARLY TRAGEDY AND COMEDY Clavigo (translated by Robert M. Browning) 153 Stella (translated by Robert M. Browning and Frank Ryder) 189 Brother and Sister (translated by Frank Ryder) 225 EARLY DRAMATIC VERSE FORMS Prometheus (translated by Frank Ryder) 239 Jery and Betty (translated by Frank Ryder) 251 Proserpina (translated by Cyrus Hamlin) 273 Notes 281 Afterword 289
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