Note 1 — From Klinger’s ‘Storm and Stress,’ Act 1, Scene 1.1

Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752-1831) was a fellow-townsman and friend of Goethe. His Sturm und Drang, which was at first named Wirrwarr, came out in 1776. The scene is ‘America.’ The speakers are Wild, a lusty and masterful man of action; Blasius, a blasé worldling; and La Feu, a sentimental dreamer. They propose to try their fortunes in the French-Indian War.

2. Published in 1776—the same year with Klinger’s Die Zwillinge, which also deals with fratricide. Julius, the crown prince, is a studious and romantic dreamer; Guido, a young hotspur. Their father has just been imploring them to end their futile quarrel over the girl Blanca, who has been sent to a nunnery. —Julius of Tarentum is by far the most important work of its author, Johann Anton Leisewitz (1752-1806).

3. Friedrich Müller (1749-1825), commonly distinguished as Maler Müller, wrote his Golo und Genoveva between 1775 and 1781. Siegfried, Count Palatine, has gone to aid Charles Martel against the Moors, leaving his virtuous and saintly wife, Genevieve, in the care of his trusted vassal Golo. Inflamed by lust and perverted by evil counsels, Golo proves faithless to his trust. The scene is in Genevieve’s castle-garden, where Golo has hidden in a grotto.