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Johann Wolfgang von GOETHE

(1749 - 1832)

German poet, novelist, critic, director and dramatist. Born Frankfurt am Mein August 28, 1749: Died Weimar March 22, 1832

Criticism

PLAYS

  1. Die Laune des Verliebten (The Wayward Lover). Pastoral romance, 1 act; verse. Written 1767. Published 1806. Produced Ettersburg, near Weimar, May 20, 1779.
  2. Die Mitschuldigen (The Accomplices or The Fellow Culprits). Comedy; verse. First version: 1 act. Written 1768. Published 1787. Produced Weimar, Hoftheater, 1780. Second version: 3 acts. Written 1769. Produced Weimar, Hoftheater, Jan. 9, 1777.
  3. Lirgötz oder Die Geschichte Gottfriedens von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand, dramatisiert (The Dramatized Story of Gottfried von Berlichingen with the Iron Hand). Play, 5 acts; prose. Written 1771. Published 1832. Produced Berlin, Grosses Schauspielhaus, 1921.
  4. Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand (Götz von Berlichingen with the Iron Hand). Play, 5 acts; prose. Written 1773; rewritten 1804. Published 1773. Produced Berlin, Apr. 12, 1774; Hamburg, Oct. 4, 1774.
  5. Das ]ahrmarktsfest zu Plundersweilern (The Festival at the Fair). Play, 3 scenes; verse. Written 1773. Published 1774. Revised version: Written 1778. Published 1789.
  6. Satyros. Drama, 5 acts; verse. Written 1773. Published 1817.
  7. Götter, Helden and Wieland (Gods, Heroes, and Wieland). Farce, 1 act; prose. Written 1773. Published 1774.
  8. Mahomet. Play. Written 1773. Published 1846. Based on Voltaire's play of the same name.
  9. Prometheus. Fragment. Drama, 2 acts; verse. Written 1774. Published 1830.
  10. Clavigo. Tragedy, 5 acts;'rhythmic prose. Written 1774. Published 1774. Produced Hamburg, Aug. 23, 1774.
  11. Erwin and Elmire (Erwin and Elmire). Singspiel. Written 1773/75. Published 1775. Produced Frankfurt am Main, May, 1775, with music by Duchess Anna Amalia of Saxe-Weimar; Vienna, Burgtheater, July 13, 1776.
  12. Stella. First version: Play for lovers, 5 acts. Written 1775. Published 1776. Produced Hamburg, Feb. 8, 1776; Weimar, Hoftheater, 1804. Second version: Tragedy, 5 acts. Written 1803. Published 1816. Produced Weimar, Jan. 15, 1806.
  13. Die Geschwister (The Siblings). Play, 1 act. Written 1776. Published 1787. Produced Weimar, Nov. 21, 1776.
  14. Claudine von Villa Bella. Singspiel. First version: 1 act; prose. Written 1776. Published 1776. Produced Weimar, 1779, with music by André; Vienna, 1780, with music by Ignaz von Beecke; Stuttgart, 1783, with music by C. G. Weber. Second version: Verse. Written 1787/88. Published 1788. Produced Berlin, 1789, with music by Johann Friedrich Reichardt; 1815, with music by Franz Schubert.
  15. Jery and Bätely. Singspiel, 1 act; prose. Written 1779. Published 1790. Produced Weimar, 1780, with music by Karl von Seckendorf; Munich, 1790, with music by Peter von Winter; Weimar, 1799, with music by Reichardt; Vienna, 1810, with music by Konradin Kreutzer.
  16. Iphigenie auf Tauris (Iphigenia in Tauris). Seelendrama, 5 acts. First version: Rhythmic prose. Written 1779. Produced Weimar, Apr. 6, 1779. Second version: Verse. Written 1786. Published 1787. Produced Vienna, Burgtheater, Jan. 7, 1800.
  17. Die Fischerin (The Fisherwoman). Wald-und Wiesendrama (pastoral drama), or pastoral operetta, 1 act; prose. Written 1782. Published 1782. Produced Tiefurt Park, near Weimar, 1782. Music: Corona Schröter.
  18. Scherz, List and Roche (Jest, Cunning, and Revenge). Singspiel, 4 acts; verse. Written 1784. Published 1790. Produced Vienna, 1784, with music by Von Winter; Posen, 1801, with music by E. T. A. Hoffman.
  19. Egmont . Tragedy, 5 acts; rhythmic prose. Written 1775/87. Published 1788. Produced Mainz, Jan. 9, 1789; Weimar, Hoftheater, Mar. 31, 1796.
  20. Torquato Tasso. Seelendrama, 5 acts; verse. Written 1781/89. Published 1790. Produced Weimar, Feb. 16, 1807.
  21. Der Gross-Cophta (The Great Cophta). Comedy, 5 acts. Written 1791. Published 1792. Produced Leipzig, 1792.
  22. Der Bürgergeneral (The Citizen General). Comedy, 1 act. Written 1793. Published 1793. Produed Weimar, Hoftheater, 1793.
  23. Die Danaiden (The Danaides). Singspiel. Written 1795.
  24. Paldophron and Neoterpe. Festival play, 1 scene; verse. Written 1800. Published 1801.
  25. Was wir bringen (What We Present). Vorspiel (curtain raiser) for the opening of the theatre in Lauchstadt. Published 1802. Produced June 26, 1802.
  26. Tancred. Tragedy. Written 1802. Based on Voltaire's Tancrède.
  27. Die natürliche Tochter (The Natural Daughter). Tragedy, 2 parts; verse. Written 1803. Produced Weimar, Hoftheater, Apr. 2, 1803; Berlin, 1931.
  28. Faust I. Tragedy, verse. Written 1791/1806. Published 1808. Produced Brunswick, Jan. 19, 1829.
  29. Pandora. Festival play, 1 act; verse. Written 1808.
  30. Die Wette (The Bet). Comedy, 1 act. Written 1812. Published 1837.
  31. Faust II. Tragedy, 5 acts; verse. Written 1832. Published 1833. Produced Hamburg, Apr. 4, 1854. Faust I and Faust II produced Weimar, Hoftheater, May 6-7, 1876. 

EDITIONS

Collections

  • Jubildumsausgabe, 40 vols., ed. by E. von der Hellen, Stuttgart, 1902-1912;
  • Goethes Werke, 133 vols., Weimar, 1887-1918;
  • Festausgabe der bibliographischen Instituts, 18 vols., ed. by R. Petsch, Leipzig, 1926-1927;
  • Hamburger Ausgabe: Werke, 14 vols., ed. by E. Trunz, Hamburg, 1948;
  • Gedenkausgabe der Werke, Briefe and Gespräche, 24 vols., ed. by E. Bentler, Zurich, 1948-1964.

Individual Plays.

  • Egmont. Published in Classical German Drama, tr. by T. H. Lustig, New York, 1963.
  • Faust I. Published in A Treasury of the Theatre, ed. by J. Gassner and tr. by C. MacIntyre, rev. ed., vol. 1, New York, 1951;
  • The Continental Edition of World Masterpieces, ed. by M. Mack et al. and tr. by L. MacNeice, New York, 1962.
  • Faust II. Published in The Continental Edition of World Masterpieces, ed. by M. Mack et al. and tr. by L. MacNeice, New York, 1962.
  • Götz von Berlichingen with the Iron Hand. Published in The Chief European Dramatists, ed. by B. Matthews and tr. by W. Scott, Boston, 1916.
  • Iphigenia in Tauris. Published in The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, ed. by K. Francke and tr. by A. Swanwick, vol. 1, New York, 1913-1914.
  • Stella. Published in The Drama: Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization, ed. by A. Bates and tr. by B. Thompson, vol. 12, London, 1903-1904.
  • Torquato Tasso. Published in Poetic Drama, ed. by A. Kreymborg and tr. by A.. Swanwick, New York, 1941.
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