Early Verse Drama and Prose Plays

Eight early plays by Goethe that revolutionized German dramaGoethe's early plays bear witness to his urgent desire to enliven German theater, an ambition that followed him to the National Theater in Weimar, where he was named director in the early 1790s. Early Verse Drama and Prose Plays brings together eight of these plays, written between 1771 and 1787. Not only do they demonstrate Goethe's unpr...