Critical Approaches to Goethe's Classical Dramas: Iphigenie, Torquato Tasso, and Die Natürliche Tochter

by Irmgard Wagner

Examination of the critical history of three of Goethe's most important dramas, relating it to the wider field of German literary criticism.

The critical attention given to Goethe over two centuries has ranged in tone from adulatory to iconoclastic, but has always reflected the central position he occupied in German literary scholarship and cultural life. The three plays analysed here are prime examples of German Classicism, and have thus provoked...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571130039
• ISBN13: 9781571130037
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 242 Pages