YMMV / Faust: First Part of the Tragedy

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: "A Walpurgis Night's Dream, or Oberon's and Titania' Golden Wedding", a grotesque play within a play performed by the spirits of Walpurgis Night on Mount Brocken. It makes no apparent sense, has no obvious connection to the frame story^note The connection in Goethe's mind may have been that, to a degree, it is a homage to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, just as the preceding scene (Walpurgis Night) is partially a homage to Macbeth. , has no function for the plot, and is never spoken of afterwards.
• Gratuitous Special Effects: Whether they're really gratuitous is, of course, a matter of taste, but given the play's status as a part of the established German literary canon, and the way said literary canon is often held up as the opposite of modern big budget special effects packed action movies in terms of cultural value and general worthiness, it is a bit ironic that the play contains so many opportunities for early 19th century theatre special effects technicians to show off their work.

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