Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

• Portraits of Goethe (Tischbein Warhol)
• The Sturm und Drang [Storm and Stress] Years (Frankfurt, Leipzig, Strassbourg)
• Die Leiden des Jungen Werther (The Sorrows of Young Werther)
• The Call to Weimar (Statesman, Poet, Lover; Gartenhaus,Goethehaus)
• Classicism: Italy Beckons (Die Roemischen Elegien [The Roman Elegies]; Tischbein sketch)
• Back in Weimar: Goethe and Schiller and the Weimar Theater
• Defying Convention: Christiane Vulpius
• The Mature Goethe: Writer, Scientist, Collector

• Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre [Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship]
• Die Wahlverwandschaften [Elective Affinities]
• Goethe's Lifelong Obsession: Working on Faust (1770-1832)
• Faust the Equivalent of Dante's Divine Comedy and James Joyce's Ulysses
• The Puppet Play
• Sturm und Drang Faust: The so-called Urfaust (1770s)
• Completion of Faust Part I (ca. 1800)
• Completion of Faust Part II (1832)
• Faust and the Eighteenth Century