Editing Faust, Part Two (section)

==Background==
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Goethe had been working on Faust from before 1772 all the way up to his death in 1832 (he had worked on this play for more than 60 years), alternating between parts. In 1797, following [[Friedrich Schiller|Schiller]]'s advice, he continued his work on the first part of the play, which he completed in 1805 (the same year of Schiller's death). The first part was published three years later, in 1808. In 1818, Goethe read [[Christopher Marlowe]]'s play, [[Doctor Faustus (play)|Doctor Faustus]], and he began working on the second part of the play in 1825. The first act of the tragedy's second part was written between 1826 and 1827, whilst the second act was written in a period spacing from 1828 to 1830. Goethe wrote the third act for the better half of 1827, and he continued working on the fifth act in 1828. The fourth act was written between february and july 1831, with Goethe sealing the manuscript (which was to be published after his death), but he sometimes took it out for private readings to his daughter in law, [[Ottilie von Goethe]], and to his friend, [[Johann Peter Eckermann]]. Goethe died in march of 1832, and the tragedy was published a year later by Eckermann and [[Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer]] in the first volume of ''Nachgelassene Werke (Posthumous works).''