William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : theater ephemera, circa 1725-1984 (bulk 1829-1940).

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William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : theater ephemera, circa 1725-1984 (bulk 1829-1940).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702197728

The collection, part of the William A. Speck Collection of Goetheana, consists of eighteenth- through twentieth-century theater playbills, programs, broadsides, posters, and other ephemera documenting performances of plays, operas, puppet shows, burlesques and lectures based on works by Goethe (primarily Faust) and other German and European writers and composers. The collection reveals the extent to which Goethe's work was popularized and incorporated into a wide range of theatrical and musical performance genres. While the majority of materials document performances in Germany, performances in other European and American cities are also represented.

2.0 linear feet (9 boxes) + 5 broadside folders.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8026941

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (b. August 29, 1749, Free Imperial City of Frankfurt-d. March 22, 1832, Weimar) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, and natural scientist. He is often ranked with Shakespeare and Dante as one of the three most important poets in history. Goethe gained early fame with The Sorrows of Young Werther, published in 1774, but his most famous work is Faust, a poetic drama in two parts....

Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928

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William A. Speck, the son of German immigrants, was born in New York City in 1864. A pharmacist by profession, he amassed the largest Goethe collection outside of Germany. In 1913, he and his collection came from Haverstraw, New York to Yale, where he served as curator of the Speck Collection until his death in 1928. For further biographical information on William A. Speck and a general history and description of the Speck Collection, see the finding aid for the William A. Speck Collection of Go...