Thesiss

Since the publication of Faust, a Tragedy in 1832, critics have lauded Goethe's masterwork with innumerable accolades. C. G. Jung, for example, refers to it as "the grandest work of alchemy." Faust, Part One, however, contains only ten lines dealing with alchemy, while alchemica…

Three operas—and really, the heroines of three operas—take center stage in this dissertation: Charles Gounod’s Faust (1859), Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet (1868), and Jules Massenet’s Werther (1892). I examine the representation of women’s trauma and suffering in each of these works …