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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's classic drama continues to fascinate literature lovers. Why does the German play remain relevant today? Goethe's "Faust," one of the greatest works of German literature, ...

WE have seen in a former paper the care with which Goethe has pointed out the way to discover the answer to the question, What is Faust ? In his letters he returns to the subject again and again, ...

Goethe's correspondence with Schiller concerning the theory of genres (1797) and its offshoot, i.e., the treatise Über epische und dramatische Dichtung are often considered to be the climax of ...

Love, familiy, friends – What would I sell my soul to keep? Not only Goethe’s Faust asked himself this question, but also the players of the game Being Faust – Enter Mephisto. After stops in South ...

A new biography by AN Wilson shows how the playwright, poet, scientist and statesman poured himself into his greatest work. By John Banville Some biographers, perhaps more than we know of, come to ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's classic drama continues to fascinate literature lovers. Why does the German play remain relevant today? Goethe's 'Faust' commemorated on €100 coin (BVA) Goethe's "Faust," ...

As we reach the end of the tragedy of the First Part of Faust and look back, we seem to have come, with Mephistopheles, upon that midway height where we can see only with astonishment “ how Mammon in ...