Faust I & II - Brossura

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Brossura

ISBN 10: 069103656X ISBN 13: 9780691036564

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1994

Riassunto

Goethe's most complex and profound work, Faust was the effort of the great poet's entire lifetime. Written over 60 years, it can be read as a document of Goethe's moral and artistic development. Faust is made available to the English reader in a completely new translation that communicates both its poetic variety and its many levels of tone. The language is present-day English, and Goethe's formal and rhythmic variety is reproduced in all its richness.

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Contenuti

FAUST: A Tragedy
DEDICATION 1
PRELUDE ON THE STAGE 3
PROLOGUE IN HEAVEN 9
PART ONE
NIGHT (Faust's Study I: Easter Eve) 13
OUTSIDE THE CITY GATE (Easter-Day Walk) 23
FAUST'S STUDY (II: Easter Night) 32
FAUST'S STUDY (III: Pact and Student Scene) 40
AUERBACH'S WINE-CELLAR IN LEIPZIG 53
WITCH'S KITCHEN (Rejuvenation) 60
A STREET (I: Margarete Accosted) 67
EVENING (Margarete's Room 1) 69
PROMENADE (Street II: Mephistopheles' Report) 72
THE NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE (The Story of Schwerdtlein) 73
A STREET (III: False Witness) 77
(Martha's) GARDEN (I: Promenading Couples) 79
A SUMMERHOUSE (Martha's Garden 11) 82
FOREST AND CAVE (Faust's Conscience) 83
GRETCHEN'S ROOM (II: Margarete at Her Spinning Wheel) 87
MARTHA'S GARDEN (III: Faust's Credo) 88
AT THE WELL (Gretchen and Lieschen) 91
BY THE RAMPARTS (Gretchen's Prayer) 92
NIGHT (Street IV: Valentine's Death) 93
CATHEDRAL (Mass, with Organ and Choir) 97
WALPURGIS NIGHT (Faust on the Brocken) 99
WALPURGIS NIGHT'S DREAM (Intermezzo) 108
AN EXPANSE OF OPEN COUNTRY (Faust's Rage) 112
NIGHT: OPEN FIELDS (The Gibbet) 114
PRISON (Margarete's Death) 114
PART TWO, in Five Acts
Act I
A PLEASANT LANDSCAPE (Faust's Recovery) 121
AN IMPERIAL PALACE
THE THRONE ROOM (Council of State) 124
A GREAT HALL (Masquerade and Faust's Masque) 132
A GARDEN (Benefits of Paper Money) 154
A DARK GALLERY (The Mothers) 158
BRIGHTLY LIT ROOMS (Waiting for Faust) 162
KNIGHTS' HALL (The Rape of Helen) 163
Act II
A HIGH-VAULTED, NARROW GOTHIC ROOM (Faust's Study IV) 169
LABORATORY (Creation of Homunculus) 175
CLASSICAL WALPURGISNIGHT 180
THE PHARSALIAN FIELDS 180
Erichtho and the Aeronauts 180
By the Sphinxes 181
Peneus and Nymphs 186
Faust, Chiron, and Manto 187
Again by the Upper Peneus: Seismos' Mountain 191
Mephistopheles and the Lamiae 196
Anaxagoras, Thales, and Homunculus 200
The Phorcides 202
ROCKY INLETS OF THE AEGEAN SEA 204
Nereus 206
Proteus 209
Galatea 214
Homunculus merges with the sea 215
Act III (Helen: Classico-Romantic Phantasmagoria. An Intermezzo)
BEFORE MENELAUS' PALACE AT SPARTA (Helen's Flight) 216
INNER COURTYARD OF A CASTLE (The Wooing and Defense of Helen) 231
A SHADED GROVE (The Life and Death of Euphorion) 241
Act IV
HIGH MOUNTAINS 254
Margarete Remembered 254
Faust's Great Plan 256
The Emperor in Danger 258
Mephistopheles' Three Mighty Men 260
ON A FOOTHILL (Defeat of the Anti-Emperor) 261
THE ANTI-EMPEROR'S TENT (Rewards of Victory) 272
Act V
A BROAD LANDSCAPE (Baucis and Philemon) 279
FAUST'S PALACE
BEFORE THE PALACE 281
Faust's Discontent 281
The Destruction of Baucis, Philemon and Their Guest 285
FAUST ON THE BALCONY 286
Mephistopheles' Report 286
Four Gray Women in the Courtyard 287
WITHIN THE PALACE (Care, and the Blinding of Faust) 288
THE LARGE OUTER COURTYARD 290
Faust's Death and Interment 292
Mephistopheles Defeated 295
MOUNTAIN GORGES (Faust's Vision of Heaven and His Reunion with Margarete) 299
Chronology of the Composition of Faust 306
Goethe's Faust and the Present Translation 307
Bibliographical Note 314
Explanatory Notes 315

Product Description

Book by Goethe Johann Wolfgang von

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 069103656X
• ISBN 13: 9780691036564
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 344
• Redattore: Atkins Stuart
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile