{"product_id":"gotz-von-berlichingen-the-first-printing-of-the-rare-second-edition-bound-by-an-early-reader-with-stella-first-edition","title":"Götz von Berlichingen, the first printing of the rare second edition, bound by an early reader with Stella, first edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGötz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand. Zwote Auflage\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e Frankfurt, Eichenbergische Erben, 1774. Bound with\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eStella. Ein Schauspiel für Liebende\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e Berlin, Mylius, 1776.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary red boards with faded spine gilt (good antiquarian condition, occasional light spotting; both works preserved together as assembled).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume was bound together by an early owner, Johann Adam Heinrich von Clement, a Rhenish cloth manufacturer, whose ownership inscription it carries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGötz\u003c\/em\u003e, the first printing of the second edition (a rare edition), with the pagination errors, 192 pp. \u003cem\u003eStella\u003c\/em\u003e, the first edition, the deluxe issue on strong paper, 2 leaves and 115 pp. The two works bound together by an early owner, a contemporary act of reading rather than a modern collector's construction. Small octavo (160 × 98 mm).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e❦\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth plays belong to Goethe's \u003cem\u003eSturm und Drang\u003c\/em\u003e years. \u003cem\u003eGötz von Berlichingen\u003c\/em\u003e came first. Its rapid movement between scenes, its historical detail, and its mixture of violence, humour, politics and sentiment broke with the neoclassical conventions that had governed German theatre for generations. Shakespeare stood behind the experiment. In his 1771 speech \u003cem\u003eZum Schäkespears Tag\u003c\/em\u003e, Goethe had praised Shakespeare as the dramatist who restored art to nature and freed it from inherited rules, and \u003cem\u003eGötz\u003c\/em\u003e became the practical demonstration. The play also gave German its most notorious line, Götz's defiant retort in Act III, proverbial ever since as the \"Swabian salute\" (the famous \"Götz-Zitat\").\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoethe had sent the manuscript to Herder early in 1772; Herder—who had turned him toward Shakespeare to begin with—told him, as Goethe recorded years later, that \"Shakespeare hat euch ganz verdorben,\" Shakespeare has quite spoiled you (\u003cem\u003eDichtung und Wahrheit\u003c\/em\u003e, Book 13).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoethe rewrote it and published it anonymously in 1773; in 1799 the young Walter Scott translated it as \u003cem\u003eGoetz of Berlichingen, with the Iron Hand\u003c\/em\u003e, one of his earliest publications and fifteen years before the \u003cem\u003eWaverley\u003c\/em\u003e novels that established the historical novel [Walter Scott, \u003cem\u003eGoetz of Berlichingen\u003c\/em\u003e (London, 1799)]. \u003cem\u003eStella\u003c\/em\u003e tested a different boundary. If \u003cem\u003eGötz\u003c\/em\u003e challenged the rules of dramatic form, \u003cem\u003eStella\u003c\/em\u003e challenged the rules of emotional convention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIts mild subtitle, \u003cem\u003eEin Schauspiel für Liebende\u003c\/em\u003e, is disarming for a play whose first ending of 1776, in which Stella, Fernando and his wife Cäcilie resolve to live together, unsettled contemporaries; Goethe recast the close as a tragedy in 1806.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePROVENANCE\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohann Adam Heinrich von Clement, Rhenish cloth manufacturer, with manuscript ownership inscription.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Heribert Tenschert Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eREFERENCES\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGötz von Berlichingen\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eZwote Auflage\u003c\/em\u003e, Frankfurt 1774: Hagen 49; Goedeke IV\/3, 143; Kippenberg I, 649–650; Hirzel A 37–40; Speck 715.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStella\u003c\/em\u003e, Berlin, August Mylius, 1776, first edition: Hagen 121; Goedeke IV\/3, 131 (113); Kippenberg I, 353; Hirzel A 76\/77; Speck 1446; Brieger 716; Wilpert\/Gühring 17.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoethe, \u003cem\u003eZum Schäkespears Tag\u003c\/em\u003e, 1771; Roy Pascal, \u003cem\u003eThe German Sturm und Drang\u003c\/em\u003e (Manchester, 1953); N. Boyle, \u003cem\u003eGoethe: The Poet and the Age\u003c\/em\u003e, I; \u003cem\u003eAllgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek\u003c\/em\u003e (early \u003cem\u003eStella\u003c\/em\u003e reception); Goethe, \u003cem\u003eDichtung und Wahrheit\u003c\/em\u003e, Book 13; Walter Scott (trans.), \u003cem\u003eGoetz of Berlichingen, with the Iron Hand\u003c\/em\u003e (London, J. Bell, 1799).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atelier Zweig Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012279451836,"sku":null,"price":7500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/1285\/3436\/files\/Goetz-v-Berlichingen_1774-1.jpg?v=1782771022","url":"https:\/\/atelierzweig.com\/products\/gotz-von-berlichingen-the-first-printing-of-the-rare-second-edition-bound-by-an-early-reader-with-stella-first-edition","provider":"Atelier Zweig Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}