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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• George, Emery E.

Titel

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

Ist Teil von

• JEGP. Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 1997, Vol.96 (3), p.413-416

Ort / Verlag

Urbana: University of Illinois Press

Erscheinungsjahr

1997

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Within its narrative, "fundamental issues such as the role of art in society; power, war, and peace; guilt, responsibility, and redemption; and most prominently Humanitit . . , all [come] before the forum of literary criticism" (ibid.). While Gray has praise for "the excellence of Goethe's verse in Iphigenie and the perfection of the classicist form" (Wagner, p. 73), he is severely critical of the Humanitat ideal, calling Iphigenie's speeches "lip service hiding self-interest" (pp. 73-74). According to J. G. Robertson (PEGS, 1928), Goethe had intended to write a "Bildungsdrama," its protagonist comparable to Hamlet (pp. 114-15). [...]Boyle-once again-offers a careful reading of this document of Goethe's inner life; Tasso the poet "turns desire into loss" (Wagner, p. 142, Boyle's theme in and subtitle for his first volume being "the poetry of desire").