Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's classic drama continues to fascinate literature lovers. Why does the German play remain relevant today? Goethe's "Faust," one of the greatest works of German literature, ...

Its redemptive ending inspired Mahler to mind-blowing music, Gounod wrote one of the greatest soprano roles for its tragic heroine, and some of us first encountered it via Tintin, but, argues AN ...

As we reach the end of the tragedy of the First Part of Faust and look back, we seem to have come, with Mephistopheles, upon that midway height where we can see only with astonishment “ how Mammon in ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is usually remembered as a towering figure of European culture: poet, playwright, scientist, and all-around genius of the Enlightenment. His drama Faust opens with a scene ...

The biographer of a truly world-historical writer finds his work weighted with a double burden. He must trace how his subject’s private passions and follies gave rise to original art, and he must show ...

WE have seen in a former paper the care with which Goethe has pointed out the way to discover the answer to the question, What is Faust ? In his letters he returns to the subject again and again, ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's classic drama continues to fascinate literature lovers. Why does the German play remain relevant today? Goethe's 'Faust' commemorated on €100 coin (BVA) Goethe's "Faust," ...