Who made Faust?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What’s the enlightenment and when did it take place?
Movement that brought human
reason and ability to learn about and improve the world empirically; 1675-1815
Who are the philosophers known for their enlightenment and inspired the American Revolution?
Locke and Montesquieu
Antiquity
viewed as human achievement of 17th & 18th centuries
How did people view the Middle Ages?
stagnation and loss; very religious and focused on the next life instead of this one
When and what was renaissance?
14th-17th cent; rediscovered ancient texts, people are capable of good and living a good life
When was the Gutenburg Printing press invented?
1450
What’s the Faust legend about?
mortality tale about damnation in a chapbook around 1587
chapbook
cheap books where people read fiction
When was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe birth and death?
1749-1832
Where was Goethe raised, what university did he go to, where did he actually finish his studies, where did he move and why?
Frankfurt; Leipzig and finished studies in Strasburg; moved to Weimar in 1775 to become a government official
What’s World theater genre that the author used?
Doesn’t use 3 unities, not mimetic, characters are archetypes, whole cosmos, play in a play
Court theater was like…
performed by French theater and Italian opera
Non Aristocratic theater was like…
performed by traveling companies
What was the audience experience like?
watched performances 3 days a week in the afternoon during winter
Where did poorer bourgeoisie and students sit?
Cheap gallery seats
Where did richer bourgeoisie and serious theater fans sit?
stalls with benches
Where did duke and his court sit?
Balcony
Where did most wealthy sit?
Boxes near the duke
Who went to German theater for free and who had to pay?
free admission for courtiers and servants; but the ones who paid were bourgeoisie, foreign visitors, college students
