Search Details

Word: urfaust (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Entitled" Urfaust," the play is a first draft of "Faust," and was written early in the author's life. The plot centers around the Margarita episode, with many seenes in the finished version omitted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Original 'Faust' to Be Given Here Saturday | 5/2/1952 | See Source »

...Everyman Theatre made no effort to give Goethe's masterpiece the least shred of dignity or meaning. With a leering eye on the box office, it resurrected the Urfaust, that youthful first draft which Goethe himself threw into the wastebasket, and made it the basis for most of the play. To exploit its elephantine slapstick and bawdry, the Everyman sold its own soul to Hellzapoppin: threw in wisecracks about F. D. R., created the impression of medieval monks doing the shag, started a Yale cheer, thought up lines like "Calling all angels." The result was a muddled farce which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Professor Kuehnemann of the University of Breslan, this year's visiting professor of German literature at Harvard, will lecture on "Goethe's Faust, Part I" in the New Lecture Hall this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. Having spoken on the "Urfaust" in his last lecture, Professor Kuehnemann will now deal with the finishing of the first part between the years 1797 and 1803. The lecture, which is the fourth of a series of five on "Der junge Goethe and Goethe's Faust," will be open to the public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Kuehnemann on Goethe's Faust | 11/12/1906 | See Source »

Professor Kuehnemann, of the University of Breslau, visiting professor for this year at Harvard, will deliver a lecture on "Goethe's Urfaust" in the New Lecture Hall at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon. This lecture, held under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein, is the third of a series of five by Professor Kuehnemann on "Der Junge Goethe und Goethe's Faust". The lecture will be open to the public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Kuehnemann's Third Lecture | 11/5/1906 | See Source »

...LECTURE ON GOETHE, III. "Goethe's Urfaust". Professor Kuehnemann. New Lecture Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar | 11/5/1906 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | Next