Lives Of Faust

Author : Lorna Fitzsimmons
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110973976

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Lives of Faust by Lorna Fitzsimmons Pdf

This book is an interdisciplinary reader on the Faust theme in literature and music from the Reformation to the present. Essays by Faust scholars set the texts in context. Peter Werres introduces the collection with The Changing Faces of Dr. Faustus. Osman Durrani and Gerald Strauss discuss contexts of the Faust Book, given in the English translation The Historie of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus. David Wootton compares Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and the English Faust Book. Klaus L. Berghahn’s analysis of transformations of the theme and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century performance announcements contextualize the popular Puppet-Play of Doctor Faust. Works of Faustian music include the ballad The Just Judgment of God shew’d upon Dr. John Faustus, Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust, and Gounod’s Faust. Essays by Henry Bacon and Steven R. Cerf engage the Faust theme in Romantic music and twentieth-century opera. Osman Durrani introduces 19th-Century American Fausts, represented by Hawthorne’s The Birthmark, and excerpts from Ethan Brand and Melville’s Moby Dick. Faust themes in the 20th and 21st centuries are represented by Valéry’s My Faust, Shapiro’s The Progress of Faust, Osman Durrani’s overview of Faust globalized, and Paul M. Malone’s work on the Faust theme in rock opera. A reading list is included.

Author : E. A. Bucchianeri
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781434390615

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Faust by E. A. Bucchianeri Pdf

A comprehensive exploration of Dr. Faust, the man who sold his soul to the devil, and those who lived to tell his tale. Volume I includes: New insights into the life and times of the historical Dr. Faustus, the notorious occultist and charlatan who reputedly declared the devil was his brother-in-law. A detailed study of the first Faust books and the popular Faustian folk tales. Original discussions on Christopher Marlowes famous drama and his atheistic rendition of the Faustian myth, including a unique and controversial analysis of the A and B texts. The days of the Faust puppet plays. Gotthold Ephraim Lessings unfinished Faust drama. Volume II features: A unique, in-depth account of Johann Wolfgang von Goethes masterpiece, Faust, Parts One and Two. An examination of the early sketches of his classic drama. Includes detailed explanations of Goethes hidden symbolism in the text, his interest in history and science, the occult, alchemy, Freemasonry and his warnings to future generations.

Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781722524807

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Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Pdf

Dr. Faustus is a great Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlow originally published in 1600. The story is based on an earlier anonymous classic German legend involving worldly ambition, black magic and surrender to the devil. It remains one of the most famous plays of the English Renaissance. Dr. John Faustus, a brilliant, well-respected German doctor grows dissatisfied with the limits of human knowledge - logic, medicine, law, and religion, and decides that he has learned all that can be learned by conventional means. What is left for him, he thinks, but magic. His friends instruct him in the black arts, and he begins his new career as a magician by summoning up Mephastophilis, a devil. Despite Mephastophilis’s warnings about the horrors of hell, Faustus tells the devil to return to his master, Lucifer, with an offer of Faustus’s soul in exchange for twenty-four years of service from Mephastophilis. On the final night before the expiration of the twenty-four years, Faustus is overcome by fear and remorse. He begs for mercy, but it is too late. At midnight, a host of devils appears and carries his soul off to hell. Marlowe’s dramatic interpretation of the Faust legend is a theatrical masterpiece. With immense poetic skill, and psychological insight that greatly influenced the works of William Shakespeare and other dramatists, Dr. Faustus combines soaring poetry, psychological depth, and grand stage spectacle. Marlowe created powerful scenes that invest the work with tragic dignity, among them the doomed man’s calling upon Christ to save him and his ultimate rejection of salvation for the embrace of Helen of Troy.

Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1543146430

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The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Pdf

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust, that was first performed sometime between 1588 and Marlowe's death in 1593. Two different versions of the play were published in the Jacobean era, several years later.The powerful effect of early productions of the play is indicated by the legends that quickly accrued around them-that actual devils once appeared on the stage during a performance, "to the great amazement of both the actors and spectators", a sight that was said to have driven some spectators mad.

Author : Leo Ruickbie
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752473468

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Faustus by Leo Ruickbie Pdf

Five hundred years ago a legend was born. The seeker after forbidden knowledge is lured into signing a pact with the Devil. He enjoys the fruits of his deal in wild adventures, riotous high-living and in the arms of beautiful women, but cannot escape his end in the fiery clutches of Satan. That is the story that has inspired genius, high art and popular culture around the world, from Beethoven to Cradle of Filth. Hundreds of performances of Goethe's Faust are staged nightly. Souls are even put up for auction on eBay. The legend of Faustus has assumed a life of its own. But is it the real story? In the first major biography in five hundred years, Dr Ruickbie reveals the truth behind the infamous legend and uncovers the true identity of the man who scandalised sixteenth century Europe. Against all our wildest imaginings Faustus was not a charlatan, nor was he in league with the Devil. We should not think of him as the pact scribbling diabolist, but as a renaissance magician, albeit controversial and condemned by his peers. In an age of spiritual hunger, economic collapse, war and prophecies of doom – an age not unlike the Renaissance – it is a story for our times.

Author : John Henry Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521175038

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The English Faust Book by John Henry Jones Pdf

A 1994 scholarly edition of a major Renaissance text linked with Marlowe's Dr Faustus.

Author : Steve Wilkerson
Publisher : Chiron Publications
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781630514129

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A Most Mysterious Union by Steve Wilkerson Pdf

Readers today are especially thrilled by the prospect of good news. Drought and global warming, civil war and famine, poverty and economic inequity—yes, bad news abounds. This book by Dr. Stephen Wilkerson, on the other hand, is about hope and optimism for the future. The recorded history of our world is largely one of a sometimes worthy patriarchal striving. It has, however, all too often been tarnished, marred, and horribly disfigured by the hatreds, intolerance, and destruction that have accompanied it. And the good news? There is another way, poignantly and persuasively outlined nearly two hundred years ago by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, involving the Divine Feminine. Goethe’s masterpiece, Faust, involves an immensely intelligent but profoundly narcissistic man, who cruelly and selfishly exploits and ultimately ruins the life of an innocent maiden. In the legend on which Goethe’s great work is based, Faust understandably winds up in Hell, just as he does in virtually every version of this well-known wager with the Devil. But in Goethe’s interpretation, the deeply flawed protagonist is received into Heaven by the Mother of God Herself. How and why can this be? Mankind’s long history of heroic accomplishment has never been sufficiently tempered by a sense of global community and cooperation that mitigate the horror and devastation that ever seem to march along beside a single-minded struggle to achieve and prevail. And how may this missing unity be brought about? Alchemy as understood in this book has nothing to do with an early and misguided chemistry and everything to do with the sort of individual transformation necessary for a better, more gracious, more inclusive world. The millennial patterns of blind violence and repression can only be ameliorated by a thoughtful and genuine embrace of open-minded reception of difference and heart-felt valuation of a larger, borderless world in which all grow together rather than further apart. Such is the promise of the final words in Goethe’s Faust: “The Divine Feminine leads us forward.”

Author : William Godwin
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9783849641863

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Lives Of The Necromancers by William Godwin Pdf

An account of the most eminent persons in successive ages, who have claimed for themselves, or to whom has been imputed by others, the exercise of magical power. Necromancy is the art of revealing future events by a pretended communication with the dead. There is a theory that this impious superstition and imposture had its origin at a very early period in the land of Egypt, and had been thence propagated like many other arts in every nation which ancient history has made us acquainted with. Of its early existence we have complete evidence from the writings of Moses, where it is severely condemned as an abomination to the Lord. It appears to be one of the whoredoms to which Ezekiel represents his countrymen as having brought with them from Egypt, and continued to practise till they were carried captives into Babylon.

Author : William Rose
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547662563

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The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus by William Rose Pdf

"The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus" by William Rose. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Lorraine Byrne Bodley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Faust (Legendary character)
ISBN : 9781783272006

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Music in Goethe's Faust by Lorraine Byrne Bodley Pdf

Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations Used in the Notes -- Introduction. Rhapsody and Rebuke: Goethe's Faust in Music -- Part I Goethe's Faust: Content and Context -- 1 The Redress of Goethe's Faust in Music History -- 2 Wagering on Modernity: Goethe's Eighteenth-Century Faust -- 3 Reflectivity, Music and the Modern Condition: Thoughts on Goethe's Faust -- 4 Music and Metaphorical Thinking in Goethe's Faust: The Example of Harmony -- 5 Faust: The Instrumentalisation of an Icon -- Part II Legacies: Goethe's Faust in the Nineteenth Century -- 6 Faust's Schubert: Schubert's Faust -- 7 The Musical Novel as Master-genre: Schumann's Szenen aus Goethes Faust -- 8 The Psychology of Schumann's Faust: Developing the Human Soul -- 9 A Life with Goethe: Wagner's Engagement with Faust in Music and in Words -- 10 Wagner's Ninth: Reading Beethoven with Faust -- 11 Linking Christian and Faustian Utopias: Mahler's Setting of the Schlußszene in his Eighth Symphony -- Part III Topographies: Stagings and Critical Reception -- 12 Operatic Translation and Adaptation: Gounod's Faust, with a Tribute to Ken Russell -- 13 'Adapters, Falsifiers and Profiteers': Staging La Damnation de Faust in Monte Carlo and Paris, 1893-1903 -- 14 Faust in the Trenches: Busoni's Doktor Faust -- Part IV New Directions: Recent Productions and Appropriations -- 15 As Goethe Intended? Max Reinhardt's Faust Productions and the Aesthetics of Incidental Music in the Early Twentieth Century -- 16 Music and the Rebirth of Faust in the GDR -- 17 Music, Text and Stage: Peter Stein's Production of Goethe's Faust -- 18 'Devilishly good': Rudolf Volz's Rock Opera Faust and 'Event Culture' -- Select Bibligraphy -- Index

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781773560915

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Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pdf

Bored and depressed, Faust tries to take his own life and in the process calls on the Devil who sends a representative, Mephistopheles to serve Faust for a set number of years. At the end of the term however, Faust will be damned and condemned to Hell. Faust agrees and uses his cohort for a number of tasks. When he falls in love, he strives for a better life and in the end his love dies and pleads with God to save her beloved FaustÕs soul from eternal corruption.

Author : Henry Bernard Cotterill
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465513960

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The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' by Henry Bernard Cotterill Pdf

Author : Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781646050246

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Faust, Part One by Johann Wolfgang van Goethe Pdf

The original tale of moral destruction, in a brand-new translation: Faust is a man torn between the urges of the living world and the significance of moral living. He feels nothing, he lives for nothing, and thus engages in a wager with Mephistopheles, the devil himself. Goethe’s master work shares the deep complexity of a human life, rife with pain, mistakes and dynamic complexity. With Faust, the lushly lyrical and philosophically brilliant drama on which the poet spent almost his entire life, Goethe solidified himself as a major literary figure whose work would transcend time and space to create the modern world. Now, this brand-new, dynamic translation demands we ask of our world: who will win, humanity or Mephistopheles?

Author : Boyesen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00012749

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Goethe and Schiller by Boyesen Pdf

Author : Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044029890639

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Goethe and Schiller by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen Pdf