“I wish, also, to consider the Faust, Elective Affinities, Apprenticeship and Pilgrimages of Wilhelm Meister, and Iphigenia.”
The same sentence also names Iphigenie auf Tauris [Iphigenia in Tauris]. Counted as one engagement.
Iphigenia
Folklore & Mythology Figure
Documented in Fuller’s letters, books, manuscripts, memoirs
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
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- Authors
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Euripides
Representative documentary evidence
1841—
The Dial
“Menzel's View of Goethe” · Vol. 1, No. 3, January 1841excerpted · analyzed · quoted · read3 selected passages
“I turn to the Iphigenia ? a work beyond the possibility of negation [...] There is an English translation (I know not how good) of Goethe's Iphigenia.”
“If it be not possible to enhance the beauty with which such ideal figures as the Iphigenia and the Antigone appeared to the Greek mind, yet Goethe has unfolded a part of the life of this being, unknown elsewhere in the records of literature.”
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
1845—
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
p43excerpted · analyzed · quoted · read3 selected passages
“the poets producing such ideals as Cassandra, Iphiginia, Antigone, Macaria, where Sibylline priestesses told the oracle of the highest god”
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“Better a thousand women should perish than one man cease to see the light.”
Inferred Fuller attributes this to 'him who makes Iphigenia say to Achilles' — Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis.
Line 'Better a thousand women should perish than one man cease to see the light' is attributed to 'him who makes Iphigenia say to Achilles' — this is Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis.
“Iphigenia! [...] you were worthy to live / We are fallen on evil times..." [Miranda's notes] [...] "Had I, my father, the persuasive voice / Of Orpheus...”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
1846—
New-York Daily Tribune
“Philip Van Artevelde” · 1845analyzed · read
“We have selected Iphigenia and Tasso as the most finished results of their author's mature views of art. [...] The unity of plan in Iphigenia is perfect.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p133
1850—
Letter to Charles K. Newcomb
p112excerpted · read
“You did not give me back with Iphigenia leaves in the handwriting of E. Hoar, exact translations of my extracts made by her from the Greek for me.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Fuller mentions "Iphigenia leaves in the handwriting of E. Hoar, exact translations of my extracts made by her from the Greek for me," establishing that she had a Greek-language text of an Iphigenia work, made extracts from it, and had Elizabeth Hoar translate those passages.
1852—
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
p229analyzed · read
“Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea, Goetz von Berlichingen, Iphigenia, first part of Faust”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
n.d.—
Notes toward The Life of Goethe
p54readManuscript page
“p54: '9, 10, "Iphigenie", "Tasso", "The Natural Daughter" "Elpenor," "Clavigo" "Stella" "Claudine" "Erwin & Elmire" - look over these”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notes toward The Life of Goethe." Houghton Library, Harvard University.