Why this topic, why these plays
The plays gathered under "Magicians" share a recurring thematic preoccupation that, across 5 different scripts in our archive, has produced a remarkable variety of theatrical solutions. Reading them in proximity to one another is one of the more useful comparative exercises a student of dramatic writing can do, because the contrasts in tone, structure, and resolution show how much choice a playwright really has, even when the underlying subject is the same. The list below collects the works in our library that catalogue indexers identified with this subject; in some cases the connection is overt and in others oblique, but in every case the thematic affinity is real and worth pursuing.
All plays on this topic (5)
- Faust — Part 1 — by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Faust: a Tragedy [part 1], Translated from the German of Goethe — by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Faust [part 1]. Translated Into English in the Original Metres — by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Tempest — by William Shakespeare
- The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] — by William Shakespeare