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Poetry & drama · German / English

Ballads and a play

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Friedrich Schiller · Gottfried August Bürger

Historical English translations

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One stanza, two languages.

Read Goethe, Schiller and Bürger in German and English. Compare stanzas and speaker turns; follow two close readings of refusal and gesture.

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Five complete ballads and Goethe’s complete Iphigenie auf Tauris. Original German with separate historical English translations; each witness and transcription license is identified.

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