WorkJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
Egmont (published 1788; performed 1789)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) · published 1788; performed 1789
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Documented 1834–1846
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“A work like Wallenstein, [illegible] or Egmont”
Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“Goethe's earlier works, Goetz von Berlichingen and Egmont are of this school [...] The Flemish mobocracy are brought before us with a fidelity and animation surpassing those displayed in Egmont.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p136
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“p1: 'whence arose Werther, Götz, Egmont'; p18: 'Goethe needed the spur to write his Egmont'; p20: 'His greatest essays Werther, Faust, Egmont, Gotz, Prometheus'; p54: '7, 8 ...”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notes toward The Life of Goethe." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“From these months, which gave the sun of his youth, the crisis of his manhood, date the birth of Egmont, and of Faust too, though the latter was not published so early.”
Also reprinted in Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Counted once, at its first appearance.
Fuller, Margaret. "Goethe." New-York Daily Tribune, .