Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Published
Nov 28, 1986
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521328012
ISBN-13
9780521328012
Description
Nicholas Boyle begins with a fascinating survey of earlier versions of the Faust story. He then offers a detailed reading of Faust Part One, emphasising the poetic and dramatic coherence of the work and tracing its links with the thought and culture of Goethe's time. The play emerges as a tragic poem which may, to a certain extent, be read independently of Faust Part Two.
Genres
Poetry