Faust: Part 2 (Penguin Classics)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von; Wayne, Philip [Translator]

ISBN 10: 0140440933 / ISBN 13: 9780140440935

Published by Penguin Classics, 1960

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Faust: Part 2 (Penguin Classics)
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication Date: 1960
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140440933
• ISBN 13: 9780140440935
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

A brief analysis of the development, style, and protagonists of the play is included with Goethe's masterpiece about a troubled man who sells his soul to the devil.

About the Author

Johann Wolfgang Goethe was born in 1749. He studied at Leipzig, where he showed interest in the occult, and at Strassburg, where Herder introduced him to Shakespeare's works and to folk poetry. He produced some essays and lyrical verse, and at twenty-four came to fame as part of the Sturm und Drang movement - a position established on the publication of Werther. Goethe worked on Faust throughout his life, while travelling through Italy and returning to Weimar, where he directed the State Theatre. He died in 1832. Philip Wayne was Headmaster of St Marylebone Grammar School. He translated the complete Faust in two volumes. He died in 1965.