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Author : John Henry Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521175038
A 1994 scholarly edition of a major Renaissance text linked with Marlowe's Dr Faustus.
Author : William Empson,John Henry Jones
Publisher : Oxford, UK ; New York, NY, USA : B. Blackwell
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1987-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0631156755
Analyzes Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, argues that the original text was subjected to religious censorship, and speculates on the original theme of the play
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1988-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553213485
Goethe’s masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience, or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever. Here, in Faust, Part I, the tremendous versatility of Goethe’s genius creates some of the most beautiful passages in literature. Here too we experience Goethe’s characteristic humor, the excitement and eroticism of the witches’ Walpurgis Night, and the moving emotion of Gretchen’s tragic fate. This authoritative edition, which offers Peter Salm’s wonderfully readable translation as well as the original German on facing pages, brings us Faust in a vital, rhythmic American idiom that carefully preserves the grandeur, integrity, and poetic immediacy of Goethe’s words.
Author : Şeyda Sivrioğlu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443862622
The Faustus myth, before being identified as a myth, was the folktale of a man named Faustus who lived in Germany. Underneath the popularity of this myth lies the basic human instinct to trespass the limits of traditional knowledge in pursuit of self-definition, authentic knowledge and power. This search and transgression also involve the desire to exercise the right of making free authentic choices. Faustus represents universal issues that are relevant for all human beings, which explains the reason why he has acquired mythic stature. Indeed, a most persistent myth has evolved, the appeal of which has led one writer after the other to reshape it. After his story became popular, he reappeared, even in contemporary culture, in different art forms such as literature, both high-brow and popular, including comics, the ballet and the opera. The real historical Faustus came onto the scene as a scholar and persistently reappeared in literature assuming different identities which, however, shared basically the same qualities. This book demonstrates and offers different perspectives to versions of the Faustus myth in literature: Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Goethe’s Faust and John Fowles’ The Magus. The Faustus Myth is a cycle which starts and ends in tragic circumstances in Christopher Marlowe’s Renaissance Faustus, in salvation in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust, and in meaninglessness, ambiguous collapses in John Fowles’ existentialist Nicholas Urfe.
Author : Christopher Marlowe,David Wootton
Publisher : Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0872207293
This edition of the 'A' text, with supporting documents that include selections from The English Life of Faustus, contemporary testimonies to Marlowe's 'atheism', and passages from the 'B' text, offers a startling new context in which to understand this play, its comedy, and its tawdry representation of demonic magic. In this light, argues Wootton, Marlowe's Faustus both reflects the centrality of comedy to the Faust legend and plays an ambiguous role in a crucial intellectual debate of the playwright's time.
Author : Sextus Julius Frontinus,Robert B. Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1811
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : HARVARD:HXQ4J2
Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1604
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCM:5301607362
Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781722524807
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 : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1543146430
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 : Lorna Fitzsimmons
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110973976
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 : Henri Logeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:252033671
Author : Gabriel Harvey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : English literature
ISBN : IND:30000035054778
Author : Sara Munson Deats
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108475853
Explores the influence of the Faust legend on drama and film from the sixteenth century to the contemporary era.
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : Devil
ISBN : 1475181671
You've heard the term "Sell Your Soul to the Devil." It sounds very rock and roll, right? Wrong! It actually comes from Goethe's Faust--a tragic work about a man who sells his soul. The themes and plot of Faust seems right out of a modern horror novel--if you can understand it! Unlike most archaic translations of Faust, BookCaps puts a fresh spin on Goethe's classic by using language modern readers won't struggle to make sense of. The original English text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of both text. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.
Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781460400869
Doctor Faustus is a classic; its imaginative boldness and vertiginous ironies have fascinated readers and playgoers alike. But the fact that this play exists in two early versions, printed in 1604 and 1616, has posed formidable problems for critics. How much of either version was written by Marlowe, and which is the more authentic? Is the play orthodox or radically interrogative? Michael Keefer’s early work helped to establish the current consensus that the 1604 text was censored and revised; the Keefer edition, praised for its lucid introduction and scholarship, was the first to restore two displaced scenes to their correct place. Most competing editions presume that the 1604 text was printed from authorial manuscript, and that the 1616 text is of little substantive value. But in 2006 Keefer’s fresh analysis of the evidence showed that the 1604 quarto’s Marlovian scenes were printed from a corrupted manuscript, and that the 1616 quarto (though indeed censored and revised) preserves some readings earlier than those of the 1604 text. This edition has been updated and revised. Keefer’s critical introduction reconstructs the ideological contexts that shaped and deformed the play, and the text is accompanied by textual and explanatory notes and excerpts from sources.