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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's ''Faust'' is a tragic play in two parts usually known in English as ''Faust, Part One'' and ''Faust, Part Two''. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages. ''Faust'' is Goethe's magnum opus and considered by many to be one of the greatest works of German literature. The earliest forms of the work, known as the ''Urfaust'', were developed between 1772 and 1775; however, the details of that development are not entirely clear. ''Urfaust'' has twenty-two scenes, one in prose, two largely prose and the remaining 1,441 lines in rhymed verse. The manuscript is lost, but a copy was discovered in 1886.〔''Goethe's Plays, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe'', translated into English with Introductions by Charles E. Passage, Publisher Benn Limited 1980 ISBN 0510000878 / 9780510000875 / 0-510-00087-8〕 The first appearance of the work in print was ''Faust, a Fragment'', published in 1790. Goethe completed a preliminary version of what is now known as ''Part One'' in 1806. Its publication in 1808 was followed by the revised 1828–29 edition, the last to be edited by Goethe himself. Goethe finished writing ''Faust Part Two'' in 1831. In contrast to ''Faust Part One'', the focus here is no longer on the soul of Faust, which has been sold to the devil, but rather on social phenomena such as psychology, history and politics, in addition to mystical and philosophical topics. The second part formed the principal occupation of Goethe's last years. It appeared only posthumously in 1832. ==Nomenclature== The original 1808 German title page of Goethe's play read simply: "Faust. / Eine Tragödie" ("Faust. / A Tragedy"). The addition of "erster Teil" ("Part One", in English) was only retrospectively applied by publishers when the sequel was published in 1832 with a title page which read: "Faust. / Der Tragödie zweiter Teil" ("Faust. / The Tragedy Part Two"). The two plays have been published in English under a number of titles, and are most usually referred to as Faust Parts One and Two. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Goethe's Faust」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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