GERMAN
FINAL HONOURS
PAPER VIII: GERMAN LITERATURE 1730 TO THE PRESENT
Goethe: Faust
Read Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil. Of the Zweiter Teil, read
Act V; if possible, also Act III; if possible, also the rest.
There are many editions. E.g. Goethe, Faust, ed. Erich Trunz, München 1986 (and later printings). Also available as vol. 3 of Goethe, Werke. Hamburger Ausgabe, ed. Trunz.
COMMENTARY
Theodor Friedrich and Lothar J. Scheithauer, Kommentar
zu Goethes Faust,
Hans Arens, Kommentar zu Goethes Faust I,
W.H. Bruford, Goethe's Faust I, Scene by Scene. An Interpretation
of Form and Content, London/New York 1968
Reinhard Buchwald, Führer durch Goethes Faustdichtung, Stuttgart, many
eds.
Ulrich Gaier, Goethes Faust-Dichtungen. Ein Kommentar, 1989 (see also
Gaier's edtions: Goethe, Faust-Dichtungen. Faust.
Eine Tragödie, 1992; Goethe, Urfaust, 1989)
CRITICAL LITERATURE
Barker Fairley, Faust. Six Essays,
Leonard A. Willoughby, 'Goethe's Faust. A
Morphological Approach', in Elizabeth M. Wilkinson and
Eudo C. Mason, Goethe's Faust. Its Genesis and Purport,
Berkeley 1967
Erich Heller, ‘Faust’s Damnation: The Morality of Knowledge’, in Heller, The Artist’s Journey into the Interior and
Other Essays, London 1966, pp. 1-44
Kenneth Burke, Language As Symbolic Action. Essays on Life, Literature, and
Method,
Harold Jantz, The Form of Faust. The Work of
Art and Its Intrinsic Structures,
Leonard Forster, The Man Who Wanted to Know
Everything, The 1980 Bithell Memorial Lecture,
Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air. The
Experience of Modernity,
Michael Beddow, Goethe. Faust I, Critical Guides to German
Texts 7,
Nicholas Boyle, Goethe. Faust Part One, Landmarks of World Literature,
Cambridge 1987
John R. Williams, Goethe's Faust, Unwin Critical Library, London 1987
Jochen Schmidt, Goethes Faust. Erster und zweiter Teil.
Grundlagen – Werk – Wirkung, Arbeitsbücher zur Literaturgeschichte, München
1999
Paul Bishop, ed., A Companion to Goethe’s Faust Parts I and II, Studies
in German Literature, Linguistics and Culture, Rochester NY 2001
Jane K. Brown, 'Faust', in The Cambridge Companion to Goethe, ed. Lesley
Sharpe, Cambridge 2002, pp. 84-100
See also Peter
Stein’s production 2000
Performance of the complete text recorded on video. You need Real Player 8
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Study guide to
Faust (Paul Brians, Washington State University)