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Paper Ge 8
German literature, thought, and history from 1700 to 1815 (including Goethe's works to 1832)
Supplementary Reading List: Goethe
[Back to main description of Paper Ge 8] This list provides details of the main editions of Goethe's works, of some important works of reference, of general critical and biographical studies, and of some helpful books on particular aspects.Editions
- Weimarer Ausgabe, 1887-1919, the standard critical edition, arranged in four sections: Werke, 55 vols; Naturwissenschaftliche Schriften, l3 vols, Tagebücher, l5 vols, Briefe, 50 vols.
- Hamburger Ausgabe, ed E Trunz, 14 vols, 2nd ed
1952-1964, the standard modern selection with critical
introduction, notes and bibliographies. Available in paperback.
Note also the 6 volumes of letters from and to Geothe, ed KR
Mandelkow, 1962-9.
Two modern annotaded editions are now complete. - Münchner Ausgabe. Sämtliche Werke nach Epochen seines Schaffens. Ed Karl Richter 1985
- Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker. Sämtliche Werke, Briefe, Tagebücher und Gespräche. Ed D Borchmeyer. 40 vols, Frankfurt Note also
- Corpus der Goethe-Zeichnungen, ed G Femmel, 7 vols, Leipzig 1958-79
- Der junge Goethe, ed M Morris, new ed by H Fischer-Lamberg, 5 vols, 1963-73
- Conversations, new ed by W Herwig of F von Biedermann's ed, 4 vols, 1965-72
Bibliography and reference
- Goethe-Bibliographie, orig ed by H Pyritz, 1965-68
- Faust Bibliography, ed H Henning, 1966-76
- A detailed chronology of Goethe's life and works will be found in the final volume of the Hamburger Ausgabe, and in Goethes Leben und Werk in Daten und Bildern ed B Gajek, 1966.
- Goethe-Handbuch, ed B Witte, T Buch, H-D Dahnke, R Otto, P Schmidt (JB Metzler, Stuttgart & Weimar, 1996-8); Volume 1 - Gedichte, Volume 2 - Dramen, Volume 3 - Prosaschriften, Volume 4.1 & 4.2 - Personen, Sachen, Begriffe
- Goethe über seine Dichtungen, ed HV Gräf, 7 vols, 1901-1914
General Studies
- GH Lewes, The Life and Works of Goethe, 1855, 2nd ed 1864
- B Fairley, A Study of Goethe, 1947
- G Lukács, Goethe und seine Zeit, 1947, 2nd ed, 1950 (also in English)
- E Staiger, Goethe, 3 vols, 1952-59
- EM Wilkinson and LA Willoughby, Goethe Poet and Thinker, 1962
- R Friedenthal, Goethe, sein Leben und seine Zeit, 1963 (also in English).
- P Boerner, Goethe (rororo Bildmonographie), 1964, (with compact classified bibiography).
- E Heller, Essays über Goethe, 1970
- TJ Reed, The Classical Centre. Goethe and Weimar, 1775-1832, 1980; Goethe, 1984
- KO Conrady, Goethe: Leben und Werk, 2 vols, 1982-85
- N Boyle, Goethe. The Poet and the Age. Volume One. The Poetry of Desire (1749-1790). 1991. Volume Two. Revolution and Renunciation (1790-1803). 2000
- John R Williams, The Life of Goethe (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998)
Particular aspects
- WH Bruford, Theatre, Drama and Audience in Goethe's Germany, 1950.
- Culture and Society in Classical Weimar, 1962
- 'The Spectrum of Goethe's Poetry', German Life and Letters.
- R Peacock, Goethe's Major Plays, 1959
- Goethes Dramen, Neue Interpretationen, ed W Hinderer, 1980
- H Reiss, Goethe's Novels, 1969
- EC Mason, Goethe's Faust, its genesis and purport, 1967
- N Boyle, Goethe: Faust Part One, 1987
- U Gaier, Kommentar zu Goethes Faust (Pts I&II) Reclam 18183
- R Gray, Goethe the Alchemist, 1952
