Faust
Preface
The Text of Faust, Part I and Part II
Contexts
- The Composition of Faust
- Goethe on Faust: On the early composition of the drama (from Poetry and Truth, Books 10 and 12)
- Preparing the Fragment in Rome (from the Italian Journey, Second Stay in Rome, March, 1788)
- The Faust Plan of 1800
- From Goethe’s Correspondence with Schiller (1794–1801)
- Outline of Contents for Part II (1816)
- Second Sketch for the Announcement of Helena (1827) o From Goethe’s Letters and from Conversations with Eckermann (1825–32)
- Eugene Delacroix, Faust Illustrations
Criticism
Comments by Contemporaries
- Wilhelm von Humboldt to his fiancée (June 1790)
- Henrik Steffen, from his Autobiography
- August Wilhelm Schlegel’s Review of Faust, A Fragment (1790)
- Friedrich Schegel, [On Hamlet and Faust as Philosophical Tragedies], from his Essay on The Study of Greek Literature (1795) o Friedrich Schelling, [On Faust as Tragicomedy], from his Philosophy of Art and Related Writings (c. 1800–02)
- George Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel on Faust (from Phenomenology of Spirit, 1807, and Lectures on Aesthetics, 1835–9)
- Mme. Germaine deStaël, Faustus (from On Germany, 1813)
- Thomas Carlyle, from Edinburgh Review, 1822
- Heinrich Heine, on Faust (from The Romantic School, 1833)
- Margaret Fuller, from The Dial, July 1841
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, from The Dial, October 1840
Modern Criticism
- Stuart Atkins, Motif in Literature: The Faust Theme
- Jaroslav Pelikan, Faust as Doctor of Theology
- Benjamin Bennett, Interrupted Tragedy as a Structural Principle in Faust
- Franco Morretti, Faust and the Nineteenth Century
- Friedrich A. Kittler, The Scholar’s Tragedy: Prelude in the Theater o Neil M. Flax, The Presence of the Sign in Goethe’s Faust
- Marc Shell, The Economics of Translation in Goethe’s Faust
- Jane Brown, The Spirit of Water
- Hans Rudolf Vaget, Act IV Revisited: A ‘Post-Wall’ Reading of Goethe’s Faust
- Marshall Berman, Goethe’s Faust: The Tragedy of Development
- John Hollander, [Faust]
Selected Bibliography