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A Note on the Prison-Scene in Goethe's Faust

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

James Taft Hatfield
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In the Göchhausen manuscript of Faust Margarethe concludes the vision of her own execution as follows: “Es zuckt in iedem Nacken die Schärfe die nach meinem zuckt!” . . . Motley's description of the execution of Egmont contains the words: “A moment of shuddering silence succeeded the stroke. The whole vast assembly seemed to have felt it in their own hearts.” The source of this statement was found, after some search, in Hooft's Neederlandsche Histoorien, Amsterdam, 1642.

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PMLA , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , 1901 , pp. 117 - 122
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1901

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References

Note 1 in page 117 4th edition, p. 88.

Note 2 in page 117 The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1859. Vol. 2, p. 206.

Note 3 in page 117 Page 171: ... en, roepende, met gevouwen' handen, Heere, in uwe handen, beveel ik mynen geest, vlydde zich tot den slagh; die, van den scharprechter, flux opgetreeden, gegeeven werd, en hem niet bet door den hals, dan den omstanderen in't hart sneed.

Note 4 in page 117 Werke, x, Kürschner, i, p. 325.

Note 5 in page 117 Werke, xxix, 174.

Note 1 in page 118 4th ed., Leipzig, 1891, p. 4.

Note 2 in page 118 i, i; i, iv; ii, viii; iv, xviii.

Note 3 in page 118 Folio 19, edition of 1652.

Note 1 in page 119 Fourth edition, i, 14.

Note 2 in page 119 Page 58.

Note 3 in page 119 i, 142.

Note 4 in page 119 i, 163 f.

Note 5 in page 119 Goethe, Werke, viii, 297.

Note 1 in page 120 i, 181.

Note 2 in page 120 Werke, xxix, 68.

Note 3 in page 120 Werke, xxix, 162 f.

Note 4 in page 120 Werke, xxix, 162.

Note 1 in page 121 Goethe's Faust in ursprünglicher Gestalt. 4. Aufl., xxiv.

Note 2 in page 121 Ibid., xxxvii.

Note 3 in page 121 Goethes Faust. Berlin, 1900.

Note 4 in page 121 Stürmer und Dränger. Kürschner, 80, 279.

Note 5 in page 121 Heinrich Leopold Wagner. 2 Aufl., p. 89.

Note 6 in page 121 Werke, xxviii, 252.

Note 7 in page 121 Briefe, ii, 303.