Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust
Description: WebFaust is the protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust ( c. 1480–1540 ). The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil at a crossroads, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.
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Link: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Faust-literary-character
Description: WebFeb 19, 2024 · Faust, hero of one of the most durable legends in Western folklore and literature, the story of a German necromancer or astrologer who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. The story has been adapted by literary greats such as Christopher Marlowe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Thomas Mann.
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Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe%27s_Faust
Description: WebFaust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. Nearly all of Part One and the majority of Part Two are written in rhymed verse.
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Link: https://www.litcharts.com/lit/faust/summary
Description: WebFaust Summary. After a prelude set in the theater, where a production of Faust is to be staged, as well as a prologue in heaven, where the devil Mephistopheles declares to the Lord his intention of tempting the great scholar Heinrich Faust to damnation, the play opens on a narrow, high-vaulted study, where Faust is sitting restlessly.
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Link: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Faust-play
Description: WebFaust, two-part dramatic work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Part I was published in 1808 and Part II in 1832, after the author’s death. The supreme work of Goethe’s later years, Faust is sometimes considered Germany’s greatest contribution to world literature. Learn more about the play.
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Link: https://www.gradesaver.com/goethes-faust/study-guide/summary
Description: WebFaust witnesses the revelry of the creatures and begins to dance with one of the witches. Over a fire, Mephistopheles and Faust converse with a group of artists and politicians about the state of the world. Faust sees a vision of Lilith, the mythical first wife of Adam, who threatens to enchant him.
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Link: https://www.britannica.com/summary/Faust-literary-character
Description: WebFaust , Legendary German necromancer or astrologer who sold his soul to the devil for knowledge and power. There was a historical Faust (perhaps two; both died c. 1540), who traveled widely performing magic, referred to the devil as his crony, and had a wide reputation for evil.
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Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Faust
Description: WebJohann Georg Faust ( / ˈfaʊst /; c. 1480 or 1466 – c. 1541), also known in English as John Faustus / ˈfɔːstəs /, was a German itinerant alchemist, astrologer, and magician of the German Renaissance . Doctor Faust became the subject of folk legend in the decades after his death, transmitted in chapbooks beginning in the 1580s, and was ...
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Link: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20170907-what-the-myth-of-faust-can-teach-us
Description: WebSep 26, 2017 · Faust casts aside his scholarship in order to become a man of action, redrafting the opening of St John's Gospel: “In the beginning was the Deed”. Part Two of Goethe’s drama charts Faust’s ...
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Link: https://archive.org/details/faust-goethe
Description: WebJul 16, 2021 · Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages.
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