The Works of J.W. von Goethe, Vol. XI (in 14 volumes)

“Me, surrender! At mercy! Whom do you speak with? Am I a robber! Tell your captain that for His Imperial Majesty, I have, as always, due respect. But he, tell him that, he can lick me in the arse!”

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goetz von Berlichingen

The Works of J.W. von Goethe, Vol. XI—Dramas of Goethe—Iphigenia in Tauris, Torquato Tasso, Goetz von Berlichingen, The Fellow Culprits, by J.W. von Goethe, is part of a 14-volume set originally published in 1901–1902. Goetz von Berlichingen (1773) the first work to bring Goethe recognition is a tragedy based on the memoirs of the adventurer-poet Goetz von Berlichingen. Iphigenia in Tauris (1779) is an adaptation of the Greek tragedy by Euripides. Torquato Tasso (1790) is a play about the descent into madness of the sixteenth-century Italian poet Torquato Tasso. The Fellow Culprits (1768) is a comedy about middle-class society.