CRITICISM

Atkins, Stuart. “A Reconsideration of Some Unappreciated Aspects of the Prologues and Early Scenes in Goethe's Faust.” Modern Language Review 47, no. 3 (July 1952): 362-73.

Provides alternate interpretations of several passages of Faust.

Barry, Dave. “‘Ist Uns Nichts Übrig?’: The Residue of Resistance in Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris.” German Life and Letters 49, no. 3 (July 1996): 283-96.

Places Iphigenie auf Tauris within a socioeconomic context.

Bennett, Benjamin. “Iphigenie auf Tauris and Goethe's Idea of Drama.” In Modern Drama and German Classicism, pp. 97-120. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1979.

Perceives Iphigenie auf Tauris to be “important in the development of Goethe's thinking on drama and theater.”

Corness, Jeff. “Faust: A Theatre That Feels Like Music.” Canadian Theatre Review 72 (fall 1992): 16-20.

Reflects on the inspiration for his operatic treatment of Faust.

Hobson, Irmgard. “Updating the Classics: Faust and Iphigenie in Stuttgart, 1977.” German Studies Review 3, no. 3 (October 1980): 435-55.

Asserts that 1977 productions of Faust and Iphigenie auf Tauris in Germany were extremely topical and significant.

———. “Goethe's Iphigenie: A Lacanian Reading.” Goethe Yearbook 2 (1984): 51-67.

Offers a Lacanian interpretation of Iphigenie auf Tauris.

Hoffmeister, Gerhart. “Goethe's Faust and the Theatrum Mundi Tradition in European Romanticism.” Journal of European Studies 13 (1983): 42-55.

Investigates “the extent to which Faust stimulated European poets of the romantic period to write works in the Faustian theatrum mundi vein.”

Pickar, Gertrud Bauer, and Sabine Cramer. The Age of Goethe Today: Critical Reexamination and Literary Reflection. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1990, 247 p.

Collection of critical essays.

Pugh, David. “From the Static to the Progressive Order of Nature: King Lear and Götz von Berlichingen.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (September-December 1990): 255-79.

Compares the thematic concerns of Götz von Berlichingen and Shakespeare's King Lear.

Reiss, Hans. “The Consequences of ‘Theological’ Politics in Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris.” In Patterns of Change: German Drama and the European Tradition, Essays in Honour of Ronald Peacock, edited by Dorothy James, Silvia Ranawake, and Corbet Stewart, pp. 59-71. New York: Peter Lang, 1990.

Explores Goethe's theological approach to politics in Iphigenie auf Tauris.

———. “Goethe's Torquato Tasso: Poetry and Political Power.” Modern Language Review 87 (January 1992): 102-11.

Analyzes political aspects of Torquato Tasso.

Wells, G. A. “Criticism and the Quest for Analogies: Some Recent Discussions of Goethe's Egmont.” New German Studies 15, no. 1 (1988-89): 1-15.

Addresses Goethe criticism that focuses on analogies in Egmont.

Yip, Terry Siu-Han. “Goethe's Impact on Modern Chinese Drama.” Modern Chinese Literature 2, no. 1 (spring 1986): 29-43.

Considers the influence of Goethe on modern Chinese dramatists.

Additional coverage of Goethe's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Gale Group: Concise Dictionary of World Literary Biography, Vol. 2; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 94; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors 3.0; DISCovering Authors: British Edition; DISCovering Authors: Canadian Edition; DISCovering Authors Modules: Dramatists, Most-studied Authors, and Poets; European Writers; Vol. 5; Literature Resource Center; Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Vols. 4, 22, 34, 90; Poetry Criticism, Vol. 5; Reference Guide to World Literature Eds. 2, 3; Short Story Criticism, Vol. 38; Twayne's World Authors; and World Literature Criticism.