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Iphigenia in Tauris (Paperback)
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Iphigenia in Tauris (Paperback)
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Loot Price R316
Discovery Miles 3 160
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This drama in blank verse, first published in 1787, the first
important work of Goethe's Classical period, stands the
Iphigenia-Orestes story as treated by Aeschylus, Euripides and
Racine on its head. In Goethe's drama Iphigenia, daughter of
Agamemnon, leader of the Greek forces in the Trojan War, in exile
as a priestess in the barbaric land of the Tauri (Crimea), breaks
the Tantalid family curse. By her own unaided human efforts she
saves the life of her brother Orestes who has murdered their mother
because she murdered their father; at the same time she enables him
to expiate his crime. The female identity of the central character
is all-important. It is uniquely her voice, against all the other
voices which are male, that brings resolution - not by preaching
values but by the visceral force of belief in the rightness of the
language of the heart. This translation by Roy Pascal, made in 1954
and broadcast in two separate BBC radio productions, is published
for the first time. Martin Swales writes in his Introduction:
'Goethe's Iphigenia is one of the most perfect poetic dramas that
the moral culture of Western Europe has produced - Few works can
have such purchase on our contemporary concerns. The endless
bloodletting of the play's prehistory, the desperate cycle of
outrage followed by acts of retribution that fuel the flames; the
play's understanding of the notion of sacrifice that conjoins the
sacred and the violent into a poisonous brew - all these
preoccupations speak with incomparable urgency to us today ...Roy
Pascal's translation is a matchless example of German poetry
rendered into English by a master.'
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