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The Fellow Culprits

A Comedy in Verse and in Three Acts

Translated by Edgar A. Bowring, C. B.

This clever comedy, like the preceding piece, was written during Goethe's residence at Leipsic; but it was touched up and improved at intervals, during subsequent years, until it was printed in his collected works. That its author considered it of some importance, is shown by the fact that it was one of the plays acted by the amateur company at the court of Weimar.