Antonius und Cleopatra = Antony & Cleopatra
Barcode: 58957726
Call Number: FR-GER Sha
Material Type: Print
Date: 1962
Language: German, English
Creator: William Shakespeare; August Wilhelm Schlegel and Dorothea Tieck, translators
Description: Dual language German - English
"...Shakespeare's famous play which explores the calamitous consequences of an overwhelming passion by telling the story of Antony, the once-heralded leader who becomes stupified with passion and degenerates into a fool, and the multi-faceted Cleopatra." - WorldCat
"[Their] translations of Shakespeare made the English dramatist's works into German classics...This rendering is considered one of the best poetical translations in German, or indeed in any language." - Wikipedia
"The Schlegel-Tieck translation is universally considered better than any other rendering of Shakespeare in a foreign language. Thanks to Schlegel and Tieck, Shakespeare has become a national poet of Germany." - New International Encyclopedia, 1905
Collection: Language Resource Center