Editing The Sorrows of Young Werther (section)

==Alternative versions and appearances==

*The 21st sonnet featured in [[Charlotte Smith (writer)|Charlotte Smith]]'s [[Elegiac Sonnets|''Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems'']] is written from Werner's perspective, and tells of the unrequited love he feels for Charlotte.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive / Works / SONNET [21] XXI. Supposed to be written by Werter. (Charlotte Smith (née Turner)) |url=https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/n22cs-w0210.shtml |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org}}</ref>
*Amelia Pickering's 1788 poem, "The Sorrows of Young Werther", retells Werther's story from Charlotte's perspective.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pickering |first=Amelia |url=https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=XyvnAAAAMAAJ |title=The Sorrows of Werter:: A Poem |date=1788 |publisher=T. Cadell, in the Strand. |language=en}}</ref>
*In 1800, Goethe's novel was adapted into the short story "Werther and Charlotte" which featured in an anonymously published collection of stories.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=WUFWAAAAcAAJ&pg=GBS.PA2&hl=en |title=Werter and Charlotte. A German story [founded on Goethe's novel “Die Leiden des jungen Werther's,”] etc |date=1800 |language=en}}</ref>
*Goethe's work was the basis for the 1892 opera ''[[Werther]]'' by [[Jules Massenet]].<ref>[[Rodney Milnes|Milnes R]]. Werther. In: ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera''. Macmillan, London and New York, 1997.</ref>
*In [[Mary Shelley]]'s ''[[Frankenstein]]'', Frankenstein's monster finds the book in a leather portmanteau, along with two others – [[Plutarch]]'s ''[[Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans]]'', and [[John Milton|Milton]]'s ''[[Paradise Lost]]''.<ref>{{cite book | title = Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (Chapter 15) | first = Mary | last = Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley | url = https://www.gutenberg.org/files/84/84-h/84-h.htm}}</ref> He sees Werther's case as similar to his own, of one rejected by those he loved.
*The book influenced [[Ugo Foscolo]]'s ''[[The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis]]'', which tells of a young man who commits suicide, out of desperation caused not only by love, but by the political situation of Italy before [[Italian unification]]. This is taken to be the first Italian epistolary novel.<ref>{{Cite web |last=cinzia |date=2017-04-27 |title=Italian Classic Books: Titles Italians Read in School |url=https://instantlyitaly.com/13-classic-books-every-italian-has-read-when-in-school/#:~:text=Ultime%20lettere%20di%20Jacopo%20Ortis,given%20to%20passion%20in%20life. |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=Instantly Italy |language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[Thomas Carlyle]], who incidentally translated Goethe's novel ''[[Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship]]'' into English, frequently refers to and parodies Werther's relationship in his 1836 novel ''[[Sartor Resartus]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shapiro |first1=Alexander H. |title=The Consolations of History: Themes of Progress and Potential in Richard Wagner's Gotterdammerung |date=2019 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=978-0367243210 |page=n.p. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n_S2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT105 |access-date=7 February 2020}}</ref>
*The statistician [[Karl Pearson]]'s first book was ''The New Werther''.
*[[William Makepeace Thackeray]] wrote a poem satirizing Goethe's story entitled "[[Sorrows of Werther]]".<ref>William Makepeace Thackeray, [https://poets.org/poem/sorrows-werther "Sorrows of Werther,"] via [https://poets.org/ "Poets.org."]</ref>
*[[Henri Pouctal]] made a film adaptation in 1910, considered to be lost.
*[[Max Ophüls]]'s 1938 film ''[[The Novel of Werther]]'' is an adaptation of the novel.
*[[Thomas Mann]]'s 1939 novel ''[[Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns|Lotte in Weimar]]'' recounts a fictional reunion between Goethe and his youthful passion, Charlotte Buff, as elderlies.
*In 1968 Jean-Pierre Lajournade made a metacinematic critical reading of the novel in ''Werther'' (aka ''Les Souffrances du jeune Werther''), a film made for TV infused with the aesthetics and the politics of the time.
*Spanish filmmaker [[Pilar Miró]] adapted the novel in 1986 in ''[[Werther (1986 film)|Werther]]''.
*A 2002 episode of the Canadian television series ''[[History Bites]]'' titled "Love & Death" is about the cultural impact of ''Werther'', with [[Bob Bainborough]] satirically portraying Goethe in 1780 as a guest on a talk show spoofing ''[[The Rosie O'Donnell Show]]''.  Goethe wants to discuss his newest work, an adaptation of ''[[Iphigenia in Tauris (Goethe)|Iphigenia in Tauris]]'', but is annoyed by having to deal with obsessive fans of ''Werther''.
*[[Ulrich Plenzdorf]], a [[East Germany|GDR]] poet, wrote a satirical novel (and play) called ''[[Die neuen Leiden des jungen W.]]'' (''"The New Sorrows of Young W."''), transposing the events into an East German setting, with the protagonist as an ineffectual teenager rebelling against the system.<ref>Ulrich Plensdorf, tr. Romy Fursland: ''The New Sorrows of Young W.'' (London: Pushkin Press, 2015).</ref>
*In [[William Hill Brown]]'s ''[[The Power of Sympathy]]'', the novel appears next to Harrington's unsealed suicide note.
*The 2010 German film ''[[Goethe!]]'' is a fictional account of the relations between the young Goethe, Charlotte Buff and her fiancé Kestner, which at times draws on that of Werther, Charlotte and Albert.
*The 2014 novel ''The Sorrows of Young Mike'' by John Zelazny is a loosely autobiographical parody of Goethe's novel.<ref>Andrew Travers, [http://www.aspentimes.com/news/13245454-113/goethe-aspen-mike-novel "In Aspenite's debut novel, a Goethe hero lost at sea,"] ''[[The Aspen Times]]'', October 3, 2014.</ref>
*In the 2015 game, ''[[The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt]]''{{'}}s ''Blood and Wine'' expansion pack, there is a treasure hunt called "The Suffering of Young Francois", where a man named François seeks help from a witch to make a woman named Charlotte, who is engaged with Albert, fall in love with him. The witch tricked François, making a Spriggan appear in the state and murder everyone. When François learns of this, he hangs himself.
* The story is read in the first episode of the 2019 series ''[[Rookie Historian Goo Hae-ryung]]''.
* The story is read to the dragon [[Temeraire (series)|Temeraire]] by Captain William Laurence in [[Naomi Novik|Naomi Novik’s]] novel ''Black Powder War'', the third book in the Temeraire series.
* In 2024, ''[[Young Werther]]'', a film based on Goethe's work, was released, debuting at that year's [[Toronto International Film Festival]], starring [[Alison Pill]], [[Patrick J. Adams|Patrick Adams]], [[Iris Apatow]] and [[Douglas Booth]] (in the title role of Werther).
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