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Review title: The Greatest Play Ever Writtten, so WHY DID HE CUT IT????
Product review: I make no bones about it: "Faust" is the one drama that outdoes Shakespeare in scope, impact, the kind of complexity that makes one THINK about what one is reading (or viewing, on the rare occasions that the play is staged). So why the brutal abridgement by Kaufmann? "Faust" deserves a completely uncut translation, and if we're lucky enough, uncut staging. So much is missing in this version that it just becomes a mutilated torso. If you want really to experience this Mount Everest of dramas, learn German and read something like the Hamburger Ausgabe (Hamburg Edition). And if you're lucky, see it staged.
