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The devil is not fundamentally evil, God not essentially good. Faust, though he abandons his beloved to certain death, enters into dubious political schemes and economic swindles, and exploits war to his own advantage, is redeemed. These simple extractions from Goethe's Faust tell of the play's essential modernity, its complexity, and its tendency to confuse. It is hard to imagine a masterpiece as widely recognized yet as little understood, writes author Jane K. Brown. Yet it is the play's very complexity, she continues, that has allowed successive ages to read Faust in terms of their own deepest concerns. In Faust: Theater of the World Brown offers a clearly written explication of the play that leads the reader through many levels of interpretation. Written over the course of 60 years that span most of Goethe's working life and the romantic period, the play bears the mark of Goethe's personal growth and development as an artist as well as that of the significant events of his day. Brown notes the influence of the French Revolution, the industrial revolution, materialism, the decline of religious belief, and the flowering of individualism. Faust portrays both the oppressiveness of

Author

Brown, Jane K., 1943-

Publisher

New York: Twayne Publishers ; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805794076

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography