Echo of Kotzebue’s Murder: The Baccalaureus in Goethe’s Tragedy “Faust, Part Two” as a Demonic Mask of the Age
The article examines a seemingly marginal but conceptually significant scene with the Baccalaureus from the second act of Goethe’s tragedy “Faust. Part II,” in the context of the ideological and cultural transformations of post-Napoleonic Germany. The focus of the study is the figure of the Baccalaureus as a literary r...