Faust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Faust or Faustus (Latin for "auspicious" or "lucky", but also German for "fist") is the protagonist of a classic German legend who makes a pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge. Faust's tal...
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An account of the creation of Goethe's famous tragedy. ... Goethe took the Faust legend like so many others; but he alone saw the typical, universal element hidden in it; he alone was able to engraft his own life and the governing forces of all human life upon this wild offspring of a darker age.
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An English prose translation of 1592 was the likely inspirations for Marlowe's famous play which, for the first time, invested in the Faust legend with a tragic dignity, although, in spite of magnificent scenes of dramatic poetry, such as the summoning from the Underworld the manifestation of Helen of Troy,
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Selected literary works based on the Faust legend, with links to electronic texts. ... Selected musical works based on the Faust legend. ... Link to a German-language version of the above legend: Dr. Faust zu Boxberg.
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Mephistopheles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mephistopheles (also Mephistophilus, Mephistophilis, Mephostopheles, Mephisto and variants) is the name of the demon in the Faust legend. The character has since appeared in other works as a stock ...
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Encyclopedia article about Faust legend. Information about Faust legend in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, computing dictionary. ... A recent variant of the Faust legend is Thomas Mann's novel Doktor Faustus (1947, tr. 1948). Goethe's Faust inspired innumerable composers of operas, oratorios,
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When Johann Wolfgang Goethe rewrote the legend and brought it back to Germany in 1831, performances were closed down until some of the speeches were excised. Goethe made his Faust plead for his freedom and rationalise it, in exceedingly unequivocal terms.
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Project Gutenberg's The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust', by H. B. Cotterill This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. ... But before we plunge in medias res and grapple our present subject, namely the old Faust-legend, I should like to say just a few words in...
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Download the free ebook: The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' by H. B. Cotterill ... Title The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' ... Subject Faust, d. ca. 1540 -- Legends...
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The Faust Legend in Music and Literature (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music) by William E Grim; Binding: Hardcover, 196 pages ; Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr; List Price: USD $99.95; Weight: 90 ;
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