| PERSONS CONCERNED | ||
| THE WORLD OF GODS. | ||
| Isis. | ||
| Hathoör. | ||
| THE WORLD OF MEN. | ||
| Tannhäuser. | ||
| Elizabeth. | ||
| An Unknown Minstrel. | ||
| The Landgrave. | ||
| Wolfram, |  | At the Court of the Landgrave. |
| Bertram, | ||
| Heinrich, | ||
| A Shepherd-Boy. | ||
| Pilgrims, Foresters, Courtiers, etc. | ||
| THE WORLD OF DEMONS. | ||
| The Evil and Averse Hathoör, called Venus. | ||
ACT I.
“Therefore we are carefully to proceed in Magic, lest that Syrens and other monsters deceive us, which likewise do desire the society of the human soul.”
Arbatel of Magic. Aphorism 35.
A lonely and desolate plain. Tannhäuser riding towards a great mountain.
Tannhäuser.
S IX days. Creation took no longer! Yet
I wander eastward, and no light is found.
The stars their motion shirk, or else forget.
The sun—the moon? Imprisoned underground!