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As much poem as it is play, Goethe’s Faust is the spiritual quest of a soul determined to explore the very nature of Reality, a revolutionary work that refuses to accept limitations, but, like Romanticism itself, embraces all, the Natural World of everyday life, as well as the Great World of universal experience, the macrocosm as well as the microcosm. The Faust character, the Faustian soul, has become a universal concern. As multifarious as Hamlet and as mythic as Oedipus, he takes us on a journey to the depths and heights of experience and leaves us not the person we were before we met him. It is in Part One of Goethe’s masterpiece that we discover Faust as the hero in whose being two contradictory forces collide. He is self-alienated man struggling to expand beyond the limitations of intellect and the known world, desperate to achieve a state, indeed mystical, where the opposites of Knowledge and Sensuality are One. Part One of Faust records that attempt in the context of earthly existence. Goethe’s Faust has rightly been called the most audacious work in Western Civilization.
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CARL R. MUELLER, a professor of theater at UCLA, is currently at work with Hugh Denard of the University of Warwick (UK) on a complete translation of the nineteen plays of Euripides. Mueller has translated works by Schnitzler, Wedekind, Strindberg, von Kleist, Pirandello, Sophokles, and Aeschylus for Smith and Kraus.
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"....more importantly, they will serve as superb acting texts of the world’s earliest playwright for today’s directors and designers." -- Performing Arts Journal
"....the ancient Greek for ourselves, we have had to wait for this translation to experience that Beauty first hand." -- Performing Arts Journal
"simple, graceful, sexy translations...capture well, in highly readable contemporary English, the full power and subversive edge of Schnitzler’s work." -- Booklist
This new, highly readable translation . . . might assure the play a wider audience and more frequent productions in English. -- Library Journal
"....the ancient Greek for ourselves, we have had to wait for this translation to experience that Beauty first hand." -- Performing Arts Journal
"simple, graceful, sexy translations...capture well, in highly readable contemporary English, the full power and subversive edge of Schnitzler’s work." -- Booklist
This new, highly readable translation . . . might assure the play a wider audience and more frequent productions in English. -- Library Journal
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- PublisherSmith & Kraus Pub Inc
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1575253453
- ISBN 13 9781575253459
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages640
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