Tasso/Clavigo Author:Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Goethe Goethe's classical verse play Tasso examines, in his own words, "the disproportion of talent to life" and the predicament of the artist at odss with the world around him. In Clavigo, a play which Goethe claimed took him only a week to write, we find the first of the double-portraits which culminate in the two souls that wrestle for... more » dominion in the breast of Faust.« less