WorkJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand [Götz von Berlichingen] (published 1773; performed 1774)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) · Berlin: Himburg, 1773
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Documented 1837–1846
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“Goethe's Herman und Dorothea, Gotz von Berlichingen, Iphigenia, first part of Faust, and Clavigo”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · winter of teaching, 1836-37
Same dated (1836-37) sentence continuing the specific list of Goethe works read.
“Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea, Goetz von Berlichingen, Iphigenia, first part of Faust,—three weeks of thorough study this, as valuable to me as to them,—and Clavigo”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“Goethe, who had received an order from a publisher 'for a dozen more dramas in the same style as Goetz von Berlichingen,' and though (in sadder sooth) he had already Faust in his head asking to be written out, thought it no degradation to become premier in the little Duchy of Weimar.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p27
“While Goethe Von Berlichingen rides to battle, his wife is busy in the kitchen... "Whom God loves, to him gives he such a wife.”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
Inferred Named explicitly as 'Goetz Von Berlichingen.' This quotation appears in Goethe's historical play (Act IV).
“Goethe's earlier works, Goetz von Berlichingen and Egmont are of this school ? brilliant fragments of past days, ballads acted out, historical scenes and personages clustered round a hero”
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: 'Events, passions; Enjoyment and pain.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notes toward The Life of Goethe." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“All this leads naturally to Goetz.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Plan for a Life of Goethe." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Fuller's planning note 'All this leads naturally to Goetz' refers to the play Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand (Goethe, 1773), which she intends to discuss as the culmination of the influences on Goethe's childhood and early youth cataloged in the preceding notes (the Römerberg, historical associations of Frankfurt, Goethe's experience of medieval architecture and civic history).
“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.