Faust, Part 1
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Overview
Considered by many as Johann Goethe's magnum opus, "Faust" has a peculiar history of composition and publication. What began as a project in Goethe's youth, at the age of twenty, in 1769, "Faust" would not fully be completed until 1831 very near the end of the author's life. Based on the German legend of Johann Georg Faust, a magician of the German Renaissance who reportedly gained his mystical powers by selling his immortal soul to the devil, the Faustian legend has forever come to symbolize the inherent peril in dealing with unscrupulous characters and supernatural forces. Presented here in this volume is the first part of "Faust", which begins with a prologue in heaven in which we find god challenging the devil that he cannot lead astray one of his favorite scholars, Dr. Faust. The devil, known in the play as Mephistopheles, accepts the challenge and so begins the struggle of Faust between the allure of supernatural power and the fate of his soul. Despite numerous adaptations, Goethe's "Faust" stands out as arguably the most famous version of this legend. Only Christopher Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus" can be claimed to rival it for that position. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper, is translated by Anna Swanwick, and includes an introduction by F. H. Hedge.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781420975130 |
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Publisher: | Digireads.com |
Publication date: | 09/12/2021 |
Pages: | 142 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.33(d) |
About the Author
Cyrus Hamlin is Chairman of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University.
Walter Arndt is Sherman Fairchild Professor in the Humanties, Emeritus, at Dartmouth College. His translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin was awarded the Bollingen Prize.
Table of Contents
Preface | ix | |
The Text of Faust. A Tragedy | 1 | |
The Tragedy's First Part | 12 | |
Walpurgis Night | 110 | |
Walpurgis Night's Dream or the Golden Wedding of Oberon and Titania. Intermezzo | 120 | |
The Tragedy's Second Part in Five Acts | 135 | |
Act I | 135 | |
Act II | 187 | |
Classical Walpurgis Night | 199 | |
Act III [Helena. Classical-Romantic Phantasmagoria] | 241 | |
Act IV | 287 | |
Act V | 313 | |
Interpretive Notes | 345 | |
Contexts | 493 | |
Selected Illustrations for Faust | 494 | |
The Composition of Faust | 505 | |
Goethe on Faust | 514 | |
From Goethe's Autobiography | 514 | |
From Italian Journey | 515 | |
Faust Plan of 1800 | 515 | |
From Goethe's Correspondence with Schiller, 1794-1801 | 516 | |
Outline of the Contents for Part Two | 521 | |
Second Sketch for the Announcement of the Helena | 523 | |
From Goethe's Letters and His Conversations with Eckermann | 530 | |
Comments by Contemporaries | 550 | |
[Response to the Newly Published Fragment of Faust] | 550 | |
[First Impression of Faust] | 551 | |
[Review of the Fragment of 1790] | 552 | |
[On Hamlet and Faust as Philosophical Tragedies] | 553 | |
[On Faust as Tragicomedy] | 555 | |
[Paraphrase of Faust, from The Phenomenology of Mind] | 557 | |
"Faustus" | 558 | |
[First Notice of Faust in English] | 560 | |
[Faust] | 563 | |
"Goethe" | 565 | |
[General Remarks on Goethe] | 567 | |
Modern Criticism | 571 | |
[Survey of the Faust Theme] | 573 | |
Faust as Doctor of Theology | 586 | |
Interrupted Tragedy as a Structural Principal in Faust | 598 | |
[Goethe's Faust as Modern Epic] | 611 | |
[Faust and Discourse Networks] | 634 | |
The Presence of the Sign in Goethe's Faust | 650 | |
The Economics of Translation in Goethe's Faust | 668 | |
[The Spirit of Water: Faust, Part Two, Act II] | 688 | |
[The Ethics of Faust's Last Actions] | 704 | |
[Faust as Developer] | 715 | |
What the Lovers in the Old Songs Thought | 728 | |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A Chronology | 731 | |
Selected Bibliography | 735 |