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Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe About This Title: Volume 2 of a five volume collection of Goethe’s works. This edition is sumptuously illustrated. Vol. 2 contains Goethe’s plays. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 2 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2112 Online Library of Liberty: Goethe’s Works, vol. 2 (Faust 1 & 2, Egmont, Natural Daughter, Sorrows of Young Werther) About Liberty Fund: Liberty Fund, Inc. is a private, educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. Copyright Information: The text is in the public domain. Fair Use Statement: This material is put online to further the educational goals of Liberty Fund, Inc. Unless otherwise stated in the Copyright Information section above, this material may be used freely for educational and academic purposes. It may not be used in any way for profit. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 3 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2112 Online Library of Liberty: Goethe’s Works, vol. 2 (Faust 1 & 2, Egmont, Natural Daughter, Sorrows of Young Werther) Table Of Contents Faust a Tragedy Faust First Part Dramatis PersonÆ. Dedication. Prologue For the Theatre. Prologue In Heaven. Walpurgis-night. Walpurgis-night’s Dream; Or, Oberon and Titania’s Golden Wedding Feast. Intermezzo. Faust. Second Part Dramatis PersonÆ. Act I. Act II. Act III. Act IV. Act V. Egmont Dramatis PersonÆ. Act I. Scene I.—: Soldiers and Citizens, With Cross-bows. Scene II.—: Palace of the Regent. Scene III.—: Citizen’s House. Act II. Scene I.—: Square In Brussels. Scene II.—: Egmont’s Residence. Act III. Scene I.—: Palace of the Regent. Scene II.—: Clara’s Dwelling. Act IV. Scene I.—: A Street. Scene II.—: The Palace of Eulenberg, Residence of the Duke of Alva. Act V. Scene I.—: A Street. Twilight. Scene II.: A Prison. Scene III.—: Clara’s House. Scene IV.—: A Prison. The Natural Daughter a Tragedy Dramatis PersonÆ. Act I. Scene I.—: Thick Wood. Scene II.—: The Same. Scene III. Scene IV.—: The Same. Scene V. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 4 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2112 Online Library of Liberty: Goethe’s Works, vol. 2 (Faust 1 & 2, Egmont, Natural Daughter, Sorrows of Young Werther) Scene VI. Act II. Scene I.—: Eugenie’s Apartment In Gothic Style. Scene II. Scene III. Scene IV. Scene V. Act III. Scene I.—: The Antechamber of the Duke, Furnished In Magnificent Modern Style. Scene II. Scene III. Scene IV. Act IV. Scene I.—: Park At the Port. On One Side a Palace, On the Other a Church; In the Background a Row of Trees Through Which the Port Is Seen Below. Eugenie, Enveloped In a Veil, Seated On a Bench In the Background, With Face Turned to the Sea. Scene II. Scene III. Scene IV. Act V. Scene I.—: Plaza At the Port. Scene II.—: The Same. Scene III. Scene IV.—: The Same. Scene V. Scene VI. Scene VII. Scene VIII. Scene IX. The Sorrows of Young Werther Book I. Book II. The Editor to the Reader. Colma. Rhyno. Alpin. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 5 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2112 Online Library of Liberty: Goethe’s Works, vol. 2 (Faust 1 & 2, Egmont, Natural Daughter, Sorrows of Young Werther) [Back to Table of Contents] Faust A Tragedy FAUST FIRST PART DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. Characters in the Prologue for the Theatre. THE MANAGER. THE DRAMATIC POET. MERRYMAN. Characters in the Prologue in Heaven. THE LORD. RAPHAEL } GABRIEL } The Heavenly Host. MICHAEL } MEPHISTOPHELES. Characters in the Tragedy. FAUST. MEPHISTOPHELES. WAGNER, a Student. MARGARET. MARTHA, Margaret’s neighbor. VALENTINE, Margaret’s brother. OLD PEASANT. A STUDENT. ELIZABETH, an acquaintance of Margaret’s. FROSCH } BRANDER } Guests in Auerbach’s wine-cellar. SIEBEL } ALTMAYER } Witches, old and young; Wizards, Will-o’-the-Wisp, Witch Pedler, Protophantasmist, Servibilis, Monkeys, Spirits, Journeymen, Country-folk, Citizens, Beggar, Old Fortuneteller, Shepherd, Soldier, Students, etc. In the Intermezzo. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 6 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2112 Online Library of Liberty: Goethe’s Works, vol. 2 (Faust 1 & 2, Egmont, Natural Daughter, Sorrows of Young Werther) Oberon. Titania. Ariel. Puck, etc., etc. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 7 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2112 Online Library of Liberty: Goethe’s Works, vol. 2 (Faust 1 & 2, Egmont, Natural Daughter, Sorrows of Young Werther) [Back to Table of Contents] DEDICATION. DIM forms, ye hover near, a shadowy train, As erst upon my troubl’d sight ye stole. Say, shall I strive to hold you once again? Still for the fond illusion yearns my soul? Ye press around! Come, then, resume your reign, As upwards from the vapory mist ye roll; Within my breast youth’s throbbing pulses bound, Fann’d by the magic air that breathes your march around. Shades fondly lov’d appear, your train attending, And visions fair of many a blissful day; First-love and friendship their fond accents blending, Like to some ancient, half expiring lay; Sorrow revives, her wail of anguish sending Back o’er life’s devious labyrinthine way, The dear ones naming who, in life’s fair morn, By Fate beguiled, from my embrace were torn. They hearken not unto my later song, The souls to whom my earlier lays I sang; Dispers’d for ever is the friendly throng, PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 8 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2112 Online Library of Liberty: Goethe’s Works, vol. 2 (Faust 1 & 2, Egmont, Natural Daughter, Sorrows of Young Werther) Mute are the voices that responsive rang. My song resoundeth stranger crowds among, E’en their applause is to my heart a pang; And those who heard me once with joyful heart, If yet they live, now wander far apart. A strange unwonted yearning doth my soul, To yon calm solemn spirit-land, upraise; In faltering cadence now my numbers roll, As when, on harp Æolian, Zephyr plays; My pulses thrill, tears flow without control, A tender mood my steadfast heart o’ersways; What I possess as from afar I see; Those I have lost become realities to me. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 9 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2112 Online Library of Liberty: Goethe’s Works, vol. 2 (Faust 1 & 2, Egmont, Natural Daughter, Sorrows of Young Werther) [Back to Table of Contents] PROLOGUE FOR THE THEATRE. Manager. Dramatic Poet. Merryman. MANAGER. Ye twain, whom I so oft have found True friends in trouble and distress, Say, in our scheme on German ground, What prospect have we of success? Fain would I please the public, win their thanks; Because they live and let live, as is meet. The posts are now erected and the planks, And all look forward to a festal treat. Their places taken, they, with eyebrows rais’d, Sit patiently, and fain would be amaz’d. I know the art to hit the public taste, Yet so perplex’d I ne’er have been before; ’Tis true, they’re not accustom’d to the best, But then they read immensely, that’s the bore. How make our entertainment striking, new, And yet significant and pleasing too? PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 10 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2112 Online Library of Liberty: Goethe’s Works, vol. 2 (Faust 1 & 2, Egmont, Natural Daughter, Sorrows of Young Werther) For to be plain, I love to see the throng, As to our booth the living tide progresses; As wave on wave successive rolls along, And through heaven’s narrow portal forceful presses; Still in broad daylight, ere the clock strikes four, With blows their way towards the box they take; And, as for bread in famine, at the baker’s door, For tickets are content their necks to break.