Goethe: Faust Part One

Offers a survey of early Faust stories and a detailed reading of Faust Part One.

Nicholas Boyle (Author)

9780521314121, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 November 1986

152 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.4 kg

Nicholas Boyle begins with a fascinating survey of earlier versions of the Faust story. He then offers a detailed reading of Faust Part One, emphasising the poetic and dramatic coherence of the work and tracing its links with the thought and culture of Goethe's time. The play emerges as a tragic poem which may, to a certain extent, be read independently of Faust Part Two.

Preface
Chronology
1. Goethe and the Faust tradition
2. A modern Faust
3. The wager
4. Love
5. Guilt
6. Tragedy
7. After Part One, and before
8. Faust's posterity
Guide to further reading.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]