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by Johann Wolfgang Von (Author)
"Me, surrender! At mercy! Whom do you speak with? Am I a robber! Tell your captain that for His Imperial Majesty, I have, as always, due respect. But he, tell him that, he can lick me in the arse!"
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goetz von Berlichingen
The Works of J.W. von Goethe, Vol. XI--Dramas of Goethe--Iphigenia in Tauris, Torquato Tasso, Goetz von Berlichingen, The Fellow Culprits, by J.W. von Goethe, is part of a 14-volume set originally published in 1901-1902. Goetz von Berlichingen (1773) the first work to bring Goethe recognition is a tragedy based on the memoirs of the adventurer-poet Goetz von Berlichingen. Iphigenia in Tauris (1779) is an adaptation of the Greek tragedy by Euripides. Torquato Tasso (1790) is a play about the descent into madness of the sixteenth-century Italian poet Torquato Tasso. The Fellow Culprits (1768) is a comedy about middle-class society.
