Download Iphigenia in Tauris by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - mirror 1 --- mirror 2 --- mirror 3 -- --------------- br Synopsis: ?Few works can have such purchase on our contemporary concerns as Goethe�s Iphigenia. The end bloodletting of the play�s prehistory, the desperate cycle of outrage followed by acts of retribution that fuel the flames; the play�s understanding of the notion of sacrifice that conjoins the sacred and the violent into a poisonous brew ? all these preoccupations speak with incomparable urgency to us today . . . Roy Pascal�s translation, twice produced on BBC radio but never published until now, is a match example of German poetry rendered into English by a master.