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    occupation of Goethe's last years. The original 1808 German title page of Goethe's play read simply: "Faust. / Eine Tragödie" ("Faust. / A Tragedy")...
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    soul, and Faust will be eternally enslaved. During the term of the bargain, Faust makes use of Mephistopheles in various ways. In Goethe's drama, and...
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    Wolfgang von Goethe. It was published in 1832, the year of Goethe's death. Only part of Faust I is directly related to the legend of Johann Faust, which dates...
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    play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part One. It debuted at the Théâtre Lyrique on the Boulevard du Temple...
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  • Sovremennik magazine in the same year. The story draws inspiration from Goethe's Faust, both as a tangible book around which the narrative revolves, and thematically...
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    tragedy's first part]) is the first part of the tragic play Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and is considered by many as the greatest work of German...
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    England, Goethe's great disciple was Thomas Carlyle, who wrote the essays "Faustus" (1822), "Goethe's Helena" (1828), "Goethe" (1828), "Goethe's Works"...
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    Mephistopheles (category Characters in Goethe's Faust)
    Encyclopedia Britannica. 20 July 1998. Snider, Denton Jaques (1886). Goethe's Faust: A commentary. Sigma. pp. 132–133. "The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar...
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  • piece, Newman said that he was first inspired to create a work based on Goethe's Faust in the 1970s, after a first reading of the play. However, during a 2014...
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    Scenes from Goethe's Faust (Szenen aus Goethes Faust) is a musical-theatrical work by composer Robert Schumann. The work has been described as the height...
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    6 December 1846. The French composer was inspired by a translation of Goethe's dramatic poem Faust and produced a musical work that, like the masterpiece on which...
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's drama, Faust. The symphony was premiered in Weimar on 5 September 1857, for the inauguration of the Goethe–Schiller Monument...
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  • Op. 33: 2nd Movement "Quasi-Faust" (1847) Robert Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust (completed 1853) Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony (1854–57) and Mephisto...
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    traditions of the legendary tale of Faust as well as on Goethe's classic 1808 version. Ufa wanted Ludwig Berger to direct Faust, as Murnau was engaged with Variety;...
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  • inspiration for Victor Frankenstein. German playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part Two (1832) famously features an alchemically-created homunculus...
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  • by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Berman uses Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust as a literary interpretation of modernization, through the processes...
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  • Eternal feminine (category Goethe's Faust)
    hell into the picture. But Goethe's Enlightenment needed a quite different abreaction." One of Goethe's purposes in writing Faust, May says, "was to explore...
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  • Faust, a character in Jazz and Faust (2002 graphic adventure game) Goethe's Faust (Part I, 1806; Part II, 1831), a work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
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  • Faust (Russian: Фауст) is a 2011 Russian film directed by Alexander Sokurov. Set in the 19th century, it is a free interpretation of the Faust legend and...
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    Gretchen am Spinnrade (category Music based on Goethe's Faust)
    Schubert using the text from Part One, scene 15 of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust. With "Gretchen am Spinnrade" and some 600 other songs for voice and...
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    Schröer's book "Goethe and Love" (1884) appeared, translated by David W. Wood. * [1] K. J. Schröer published his edition of Goethe's Faust, parts 1 and 2...
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  • 2059, it is a contemporary interpretation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1808 Faust and the first film directly based on both parts of the tragedy. It...
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    Woland, Bulgakov draws heavily from the figure of Mephistopheles in Goethe's Faust, a connection made explicit by the use of an epigraph from the poem...
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  • The Black Halo (category Music based on Goethe's Faust)
    2005, through Steamhammer Records. It is a concept album inspired by Goethe's Faust. Continuing the story introduced in Epica (2003), it is the second and...
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  • from Faust (Schubert) (German: Szene aus ‘Faust’) — composition by Franz Schubert Scenes from Goethe's Faust (German: Szenen aus Goethes Faust) – composition...
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  • major character in Goethe's Faust (1808) has this name. In German, the Gretchenfrage [de] ("question by Gretchen"), derived from Faust, is an idiom for...
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    Symphony No. 8 (Mahler) (category Music based on Goethe's Faust)
    Pentecost, and Part II is a setting of the words from the closing scene of Goethe's Faust. The two parts are unified by a common idea, that of redemption through...
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  • 1808-32 play Goethe's Faust. 1604 – Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus 1808 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part One 1832...
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  • The Cry for Myth (1991) is a book by the American existential psychologist Rollo May, in which he proposes that modern people need myths to make sense...
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    the film The Last Laugh (1924), as well as a 1926 interpretation of Goethe's Faust. He emigrated to Hollywood in 1926, where he joined the Fox Studio and...
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