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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 Valér

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Author

Fitzsimmons, Lorna (editor)

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter; De Gruyter; de Gruyter

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110973976

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Music, History