Johann von Goethe Wolfgang

Johann von Goethe Wolfgang Criticism

• Introduction
• Principal Works
• The German Stage-Image of Goethe, 1969-1981
• Wolves, Sheep, and the Shepherd: Legality, Legitimacy, and Hobbesian Political Theory in Goethe's Götz von Berlichingen
• Criticism: Iphigenie Auf Tauris
  • Dramatic Irony in Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris
  • ‘Die neue sitte’ and Metaphors of Secular Existence: Reflections on Goethe's Iphigenie.
• Criticism: Egmont: Ein Trauerspiel In FüNf AufzüGen
  • Goethe's Egmont: Political Revolution and Personal Transformation
  • Margarete von Parma in Goethe's Egmont: Text and Performance
• Criticism: Torquato Tasso
  • Tasso's Place in the Courtly Universe: The Atavistic Cosmography of Goethe's Torquato Tasso
  • Goethe's Classicism: The Paradox of Irrationality in Torquato Tasso
• ‘Don't See, Don't Tell’: Gender Transgression and Repetition Compulsion in Goethe's Die natürliche Tochter
• Criticism: Faust
  • Stage Illusion and the Stage Designs of Goethe and Hugo
  • Goethe's Faust: A Cautionary Tale?
• Faust II and the Darwinian Revolution
• Further Reading