The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 · Chapter 15A Drama in Five Acts

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Translated by Anna Swanwick

Like Torquato Tasso, Iphigenia was originally written in prose, and in that form was acted at the Weimar Court Theatre about 1779. Goethe himself took the part of Orestes.

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Dramatis Personæ

IPHIGENIA. THOAS, King of the Taurians. ORESTES. PYLADES. ARKAS.

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