Lives of Faust
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Lives of Faust

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Lives of Faust

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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.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9783110198232
eBook ISBN
9783110973976
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
German Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction – The Changing Faces of Dr. Faustus
  3. I The Historical Faustus
  4. Documents
  5. II The Faust Books
  6. How to Read a Volksbuch: The Faust Book of 1587
  7. The Historie of the Damnable Life and Dealignserved Death of Doctor John Faustus
  8. III Early Faust Plays and Music
  9. Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and the English Faust Book
  10. Early Faust Music
  11. The Just Judgment of God shew’d upon Dr. John Faustus
  12. Transformations of the Faust Theme
  13. Documents
  14. The Puppet-Play of Doctor Faust
  15. IV The Faust Theme in Romantic Music
  16. The Damnation of Faust – Berlioz
  17. Faust – Gounod
  18. V 19th-Century American Fausts
  19. The Birthmark – Hawthorne
  20. Ethan Brand (excerpt) – Hawthorne
  21. Moby-Dick (excerpt) – Melville
  22. VI Faust in the 20th and 21 st Centuries
  23. The Faust Theme in Twentieth-Century Opera
  24. My Faust (excerpt) – Valéry
  25. Faust in the Nuclear Age
  26. The Progress of Faust – Shapiro
  27. Faust Globalized
  28. Faust Rock Opera
  29. Further Reading
  30. Index