Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is a tragic play in two parts: Faust. Der Trag�die erster Teil (translated as: Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy) and Faust. Der Trag�die zweiter Teil (Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy). Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages. Faust is Goethe's most famous work and considered by many to be one of the greatest works of German literature. Goethe completed a preliminary version of Part One in 1806. The ...
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is a tragic play in two parts: Faust. Der Trag�die erster Teil (translated as: Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy) and Faust. Der Trag�die zweiter Teil (Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy). Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages. Faust is Goethe's most famous work and considered by many to be one of the greatest works of German literature. Goethe completed a preliminary version of Part One in 1806. The 1808 publication was followed by the revised 1828-29 edition, which was the last to be edited by Goethe himself. Prior to these appeared a partial printing in 1790 of Faust, a Fragment.
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