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Apr 23, 2024 · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s father, Johann Caspar Goethe (1710–82), was a man of leisure who lived on an inherited fortune. Johann’s mother, Catharina Elisabeth Textor (1731–1808), was a daughter of Frankfurt’s most senior official. Goethe was the eldest of seven children, though only one other survived into adulthood, his sister ...
Apr 25, 2024 · Faust, two-part dramatic work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Part I was published in 1808 and Part II in 1832, after the author’s death. The supreme work of Goethe’s later years, Faust is sometimes considered Germany’s greatest contribution to world literature. Learn more about the play.
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Dec 1, 2020 · Goethe was a young law student in Leipzig and Strasbourg when he was first introduced to Shakespeare’s writings in Rede zum Shakespear’s Tag, 1771. German was one of the first languages in which Shakespeare’s plays were translated by the great Schlegel, Tiecks and Wolf Heinrich Graf von Baudissin.
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Jul 24, 2020 · Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Translations into English Publisher New York : F. Ungar Pub. Co. Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English
He circled the island from Palermo, seeing the unfinished Doric temple at Segesta and the ruins of ancient Agrigentum, cutting across the interior to see Enna (where, according to myth, Proserpine was taken down into Hades), visiting the Greek amphitheatre at Taormina, and climbing one of the lesser peaks of Mount Etna, the place where the ...
Mar 22, 2022 · Goethe's plays by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Publication date 1980 Topics Drama in German 1750-1830 English texts Publisher London : Benn Collection
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [a] (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present ...
