Faust: Parts One and Two

Faust: Parts One and Two

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust: Parts One and Two

Faust: Parts One and Two

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Overview

Single-volume edition of the complete work in the Bayard Taylor translation. Part One covers Faust's pact with Mephistopheles and seduction of an innocent girl; Part Two relates his courtship of Helen of Troy and his salvation.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780486831381
Publisher: Dover Publications
Publication date: 06/13/2018
Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Plays
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 368
Sales rank: 288,418
File size: 870 KB

About the Author

The greatest German literary figure of the modern era, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was a poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, critic, theater director, and statesman. He is best known for Faust, which he started at the age of 23 and finished shortly before his death, 60 years later. The Sorrows of Young Werther, written at the age of 25, quickly achieved cult status and remains an exemplar of the Sturm und Drang literary movement. In addition to hundreds of poems of all kinds, Goethe wrote a series of classic memoirs of his childhood and travels as well as numerous essays on scientific subjects.
Translator Bayard Taylor (1829–1878) was a well-known poet and travel writer whose interpretation of Faust was praised by Encyclopedia Americana as "one of the finest attempts of the kind in any literature."

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CHAPTER 1

FIRST PART OF THE TRAGEDY.

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Table of Contents

Faust: Part 1

Dedication 1

Prelude on The Stage 3

Prologue in Heaven 9

Scene I Night (Faust's Monologue) 13

Scene II Before the City-Gate 25

Scene III The Study (The Exorcism) 35

Scene IV The Study (The Compact) 44

Scene V Auerbach's Cellar in Leipzig 58

Scene VI Witches' Kitchen 67

Scene VII A Street 76

Scene VIII Evening 78

Scene IX Promenade 82

Scene X The Neighbor's House 84

Scene XI Street 88

Scene XII Garden 90

Scene XIII A Garden-Arbor 94

Scene XIV Forest and Cavern 95

Scene XV Margaret's Room 99

Scene XVI Martha's Garden 101

Scene XVII At the Fountain 104

Scene XVIII Donjon (Margaret's Prayer) 106

Scene XIX Night (Valentine's Death) 107

Scene XX Cathedral 111

Scene XXI Walpurgis-Night 113

Scene XXII Walpurgis-Night's Dream 124

Scene XXIII Dreary Day 130

Scene XXIV Night 132

Scene XXV Dungeon 132

Faust: Part 2

Act I.

Scene I A Pleasant Landscape 141

Scene II The Emperor's Castle 145

Scene III Spacious Hall (Carnival Masquerade) 154

Scene IV Pleasure-Garden (Paper-Money Scheme) 180

Scene V A Gloomy Gallery (The Mothers) 185

Scene VI Brilliantly Lighted Halls 189

Scene VII Hall of the Knights, Dimly Lighted 191

Act II.

Scene I A Gothic Chamber, Formerly Faust's 197

Scene II Laboratory (Homunculus) 204

Scene III Classical Walpurgis-Night 210

1 The Pharsalian Fields 210

2 Peneus 217

3 On the Upper Peneus, as Before 224

4 Rocky Coves of the Ægean Sea 238

5 Telchines of Rhodes 245

Act III.

Before the Palace of Menelaus in Sparta 252

Act IV.

Scene I High Mountains 299

Scene II On the Headland (The Battle) 307

Scene III The Rival Emperor's Tent 319

Act v.

Scene I Open Country 327

Scene II In the Little Garden 329

Scene III Palace 330

Scene IV Dead of Night 334

Scene V Midnight (Faust's Blindness) 337

Scene VI Great Outer Court of the Palace (Faust's Death) 341

Scene VII Mountain-Gorges, Forest, Rock, Desert 351

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