Iphigenia in Tauris (Goethe)

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Scene from the première of the final version in Weimar in 1802 of Goethe's Iphigenie in Tauris, with Goethe as Orestes in the centre. Drawing by Angelica Kauffmann.

Iphigenie in Tauris (German: Iphigenie auf Tauris) is a reworking by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe of the ancient Greek tragedy Iphigeneia in Tauris by Euripides.

Goethe wrote his first version of the play in six weeks, and it was first performed on April 6, 1779 in prose form. He rewrote it in 1781, again in prose, and finally in 1786 in verse form. He took the manuscript of Iphigenia in Tauris with him on his famous Italian Journey.

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• From Project Gutenberg:
  • Iphigenia in Tauris
  • Iphigenie auf Tauris (German)
  • Ifigenio en Taŭrido (Esperanto)

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