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Our title Here am I free, here do I belong is well-chosen by us artists these days. Goethe himself used this expression in his Easter Walk under the protection of Duke Carl August, who was brought up in an enlightened spirit and in his service. For us today, in January...
'At three in the morning I crept out of Carlsbad, they wouldn't have let me go if I hadn't. I wasn't going to be stopped, for it was time.' This is the authentic day-to-day record never before translated, of the first eight weeks of freedom as Germany's greatest poet...
Jetter (steps forward, and bends his cross-bow). Soest, Buyck, Ruysum Soest. Come, shoot away, and have done with it! You won't beat me! Three black rings, you never made such a shot in all your life. And so I'm master for this year. Jetter. Master and king to boot; who...
SCENE I. A Grove before the Temple of Diana. IPHIGENIA. Beneath your leafy gloom, ye waving boughs Of this old, shady, consecrated grove, As in the goddess' silent sanctuary, With the same shudd'ring feeling forth I step, As when I trod it first, nor ever here Doth...
MEPHISTOPHELES Since Thou, O Lord, deign'st to approach again And ask us how we do, in manner kindest, And heretofore to meet myself wert fain, Among Thy menials, now, my face Thou findest. Pardon, this troop I cannot follow after With lofty speech, though by them...
Defects are perceived only by one who has no love; therefore, to see them, a man must become uncharitable, but not more so than is necessary for the purpose.
The play was late in breaking up: old Barbara went more than once to the window, and listened for the sound of carriages. She was waiting for Mariana, her pretty mistress, who had that night, in the afterpiece, been acting the part of a young officer, to the no small...
'I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial.'A selection of the most insightful maxims and reflections from one of Germany's greatest ever thinkers.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate...
'I have so much and my feeling for her devours everything, I have so much and without her everything is nothing.' The Sorrows of Young Werther propelled Goethe to instant fame when it first appeared in 1774. Goethe drew on his own unhappy experiences to tell the...
You only find true love once.When Werther dances with the beautiful Lotte, it seems as though he is in paradise. It is a joy, however, that can only ever be short-lived. Engaged to another man, she tolerates Werther's adoration and encourages his friendship. She can...
Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre programmes, visiting cards, draft manuscripts and even bills … Goethe was probably the last true ‘Renaissance Man’. Although...
Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate. But the peace of their existence is thrown into chaos when two visitors - Eduard's friend the Captain and Charlotte's passionate young ward Ottilie - provoke unexpected...
The second part of Goethe's masterpiece opens with Faust struggling to recover from the death of his beloved Gretchen.The quick-witted demon Mephistopheles soon persuades him to look beyond his sorrow and enter the world of politics and power, but the great scholar is...
Le Serpent vert est un conte merveilleux et symbolique, ici traduit par Oswald Wirth. " Le Serpent vert est un conte merveilleux à tous les points de vue, qui n'a pu être conçu que sous l'influence de ce somnambulisme spécial auquel Goethe attribuait lui-même la...
Trois Ouvrages Classiques d'Amour Passionné explore magistralement les nuances de l'amour à travers une sélection d'œuvres littéraires immortelles. Combinant des styles variés allant du roman épistolaire à la poésie captivante, la collection capte l'intensité et la...
Lisez ce conte. Sans la traîne lumineuse du Serpent vert et sans la Lampe du vieillard, je suivrais les Feux Follets ou je m’égarerais dans la féconde obscurité du Fleuve et du Jardin magique.Sans Oswald Wirth je marcherais comme un aveugle derrière l’imagination de...
Le Serpent Vert est le plus connu et le plus mystérieux des contes initiatiques de Gœthe. Grâce à l'exégèse symbolique d'Oswald Wirth et les deux études symboliques de Rudolf Steiner, celui-ci révèle quelques-uns de ses mystères.Le Nouveau Pâris et La Nouvelle Mélusine,...
"Les Souffrances du jeune Werther" est le premier roman de Goethe, texte fondateur du romantisme allemand. Werther rencontre Charlotte lors d'un bal. Il en tombe éperdument amoureux ; mais celle-ci est fiancée à son meilleur ami. Son âme pure et son sens de l’honneur...
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