Excerpt from Goethes Iphigenie Auf Tauris
This edition of Goethe's Iphigenie has been prepared largely with reference to the needs of college students who have become sufficiently familiar with the principles of the German language to read this drama from the literary point of view, as one of the great masterpieces of Goethe's genius. The text is based upon the Weimar edition of Iphigenie, Vol. X. The deviations from this standard edition are chiefly those of orthography, in which the Prussian system of spelling has been adopted. The punctuation has also, to some extent, been modernized according to present requirements.
The rather extended introduction and copious notes require some explanation. The teacher undertaking to read Iphigenie to-day with average college students is confronted with peculiar problems. The intelligent reading of the drama presupposes a reasonable acquaintance with the mythological and legendary world of ancient Greece, and yet, owing to the marked decline of classical studies in recent years in high schools and colleges, the average student has but the vaguest and most meager knowledge of the subject. Several years of experience in teaching the drama have convinced the editor that only very little of such information can be assumed.
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