Faust Part 1 Emily Dickinson Things come to a crux

Things come to a crux when the creature starts to rebel against her creator – and the scene is set for a play that questions the class system

strange joys

Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler (translators)

What Jenny finds is a woman as astonishing in her performance as she is provocative in nature

Faust Part 1 Emily Dickinson Things come to a cruxThis new translation, in rhymed verse, of Goethe's Faust one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of European literature preserves the essence of Goethe's meaning without resorting either to an overly literal, archaic translation or to an overly modern idiom. It remains the nearest "equivalent" rendering of the German ever achieved. The legend of Faust grew up in the sixteenth century, a time of transition between medieval and modern