{"product_id":"lives-of-faust","title":"Lives of Faust","description":"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 \u003cem\u003eThe Changing Faces of Dr. Faustus\u003c\/em\u003e. Osman Durrani and Gerald Strauss discuss contexts of the Faust Book, given in the English translation \u003cem\u003eThe Historie of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus\u003c\/em\u003e. David Wootton compares Marlowe’s \u003cem\u003eDoctor Faustus\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Just Judgment of God shew’d upon Dr. John Faustus\u003c\/em\u003e, Berlioz’s \u003cem\u003eThe Damnation of Faust\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Birthmark\u003c\/em\u003e, and excerpts from Ethan Brand and Melville’s \u003cem\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/em\u003e. Faust themes in the 20th and 21st centuries are represented by Valéry’s \u003cem\u003eMy Faust\u003c\/em\u003e, Shapiro’s \u003cem\u003eThe Progress of Faust\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57335584948568,"sku":"9783110198232","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783110198232_a5e05f30-2482-4482-a213-c0ba8d66c093.jpg?v=1780042548","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/lives-of-faust","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}