Richard Wagner's Prose Works, Volume 3: The Theatre

Richard Wagner

Translated by William Ashton Ellis

24 chapters · about 8 h

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The opening

ON THE "GOETHE-INSTITUTE."

A LETTER TO FRANZ LISZT.

]EAR FRIEND,

I still owe you an account of my views about your sketch for a “Goethestiftungr

Is there any need for me to assure you in advance, that I thoroughly endorse the unconditional praise bestowed by the public journals on the fire and beauty of your conception of that idea? Looking quite aside from your exceptional situation toward the question, and the fact that in that situation you approach the subject £rom a far nobler and worthier standpoint than those who properly should stand far closer to it than yourself, — this witness must be borne you: that you alone have rightly grasped at all the aim and efficacy of a “Goethestiftung”

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About this edition

The words
William Ashton Ellis's English translation, copied word for word.
Left out
  • Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 10 places
  • The scanner's colour card at the start of the scan, read as letters by the OCR (“ii”, “Mi”) (3 blocks)
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 26 places
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
  • The work's German title in Fraktur on its half-title, read as gibberish by the OCR (“tlber Me „ (Soetbestif tung,"”)
  • The work's German title in Fraktur on its half-title, read as gibberish by the OCR (“Gbeater in Zurich”)
  • The work's German title in Fraktur on its half-title, read as gibberish by the OCR (“taber fl&usffcaliscbe Ikritifc.”)
  • Other material that isn't the author's, in 12 places
  • Stray marks read by the OCR, standing alone (6 blocks)
  • A music example (printed notation) read as characters by the OCR (7 blocks)
  • Half-title: the work's heading, printed again over its text (3 blocks)
  • The work's German title in Fraktur on its half-title, read as gibberish by the OCR (“prosrammatisdbe leriauterungeru”)
  • The work's German title in Fraktur on its half-title, read as gibberish by the OCR (“Bin Brief an Ibector”)
  • The printer's imprint