Goethe Etc.

The title above is the subject of the book I am writing on Goethe, and the work itself explains my long blog silence. I am definitely progre...

Portrait of Goethe, ca. 1764  It’s been too long since I have posted. In the meantime I have noticed that Goethe had more to say  in his aut...

This post is going to be all over the place. In my work on the "young" Goethe, i.e., his oeuvre before he went to Weimar at the ag...

I subscribe to the TLS, which does pretty good coverage of German literature and history, including Goethe. (I have even written a few revie...

  As usual, I am caught up in many things, including an article on Goethe's 1774 play Clavigo , which I am completing (the footnotes to...

This is the concluding part of the previous post on the subject of refugees and émigrés during the French Revolution in Goethe's works. ...

Unterhaltungen dt. Ausgewanderten onstage in 2016 The East Coast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ECASECS) is holding its a...