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Book The Relevance of Goethe s Faust on the Modern Stage

Download or read book The Relevance of Goethe s Faust on the Modern Stage written by Elisa Anne Clumpner and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Goethe s Faust I

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  • Author : David W. Lovell
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2017-01-06
  • ISBN : 1443862266
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book Goethe s Faust I written by David W. Lovell and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 2014, the University of Delaware’s Resident Ensemble Players staged the first Part of Goethe’s Faust, adapted and directed by Heinz-Uwe Haus, which forms the centrepiece and raison d’être of this book. This book tracks the creative process of Haus’s adaptation of the play and his attempts to elicit responses from his international networks to his question: how is Goethe’s Faust relevant today? It brings together comments from stage and costume designers as they brought their own creativity and understanding of the audience to bear on the play, and presents a brief record of the production itself, through stage directions and the photography of Bill Browning. The book then explores the reactions the production has elicited amongst some of its audience.

Book Goethe s Faust

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  • Author : Hans Schulte
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2011-05-05
  • ISBN : 1139496085
  • Pages : 347 pages

Download or read book Goethe s Faust written by Hans Schulte and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faust has been called the fundamental icon of Western culture, and Goethe's inexhaustible poetic drama is the centrepiece of its tradition in literature, music and art. In recent years, this play has experienced something of a renaissance, with a surge of studies, theatre productions, press coverage and public discussions. Reflecting this renewed interest, leading Goethe scholars in this volume explore the play's striking modernity within its theatrical framework. The chapters present new aspects such as the virtuality of Faust, the music drama, the modernization of evil, Faust's blindness, the gay Mephistopheles, classic beauty and horror as phantasmagoria, and Goethe's anticipation of modern science, economics and ecology. The book contains an illustrated section on Faust in modern performance, with contributions by renowned directors, critics and dramaturges, and a major interview with Peter Stein, director of the uncut 'millennium production' of Expo 2000.

Book Goethe s Faust

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  • Author : Hans Schulte
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2011-05-05
  • ISBN : 9780521194648
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Goethe s Faust written by Hans Schulte and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faust has been called the fundamental icon of Western culture, and Goethe's inexhaustible poetic drama is the centerpiece of its tradition in literature, music and art. In recent years, this play has experienced something of a renaissance, with a surge of studies, theater productions, press coverage and public discussions. Reflecting this renewed interest, leading Goethe scholars in this volume explore the play's striking modernity within its theatrical framework. The chapters present new aspects such as the virtuality of Faust, the music drama, the modernization of evil, Faust's blindness, the gay Mephistopheles, classic beauty and horror as phantasmagoria, and Goethe's anticipation of modern science, economics and ecology. The book contains an illustrated section on Faust in modern performance, with contributions by renowned directors, critics and dramaturges, and a major interview with Peter Stein, director of the uncut 'millennium production' of Expo 2000.

Book Goethe s Faust

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  • Author : Jane K. Brown
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN : 9780801493904
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Goethe s Faust written by Jane K. Brown and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Jane K. Brown offers an original reading of Goethe's complex masterpiece in the context of European Romanticism. Looking at the two parts of Faust in sequence, she views the second part as an elaboration of what was implicit in the first, and she clarifies the patterns of thought and organization underlying the play. In Faust, she argues, Goethe not only situates German culture within the wider European literary tradition, but also demonstrates that all literature is by its nature allusive--that it exists only as part of a tradition.

Book Music in Goethe s Faust

Download or read book Music in Goethe s Faust written by Lorraine Byrne Bodley and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goethe's Faust, a work which has attracted the attention of composers since the late eighteenth century and played a vital role in the evolution of vocal, operatic and instrumental repertoire in the nineteenth century, hashad a seminal impact in musical realms.

Book Faust

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  • Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780192835956
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Faust written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legend of Faust grew up in the sixteenth century, a time of transition between medieval and modern culture in Germany. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) adopted the story of the wandering conjuror who accepts Mephistopheles's offer of a pact, selling his soul for the devil's greaterknowledge; over a period of 60 years he produced one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of European literature.David Luke's recent translation, specially commissioned for The World's Classics series, has all the virtues of previous classic translations of Faust, and none of their shortcomings. Cast in rhymed verse, following the original, it preserves the essence of Goethe's meaning without sacrifice toarchaism or over-modern idiom. It is as near an `equivalent' rendering of the German as has been achieved.

Book Faust

Download or read book Faust written by Osman Durrani and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides an exploration of the way Faust has achieved iconic status in modern culture by examining in his image in literature, theatre, film, art.

Book Goethe s Faust and Cultural Memory

Download or read book Goethe s Faust and Cultural Memory written by Lorna Fitzsimmons and published by Lehigh University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining Goethe’s Faust and its derivatives in European, North American, and South American cultural contexts. It takes both a canonic and archival approach to Faust in studies of adaptations, performances, appropriations, sources, and the translation of the drama contextualized within cultural environments ranging from Gnosticism to artificial intelligence. Lorna Fitzsimmons’ introduction sets this scholarship within a critical framework that draws together work on intertextuality and memory. Alan Corkhill looks at the ways in which the authority of the word is critiqued in Faust and Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus.Robert E. Norton revisits the question of Herder as Faust and the early twentieth-century context in which the claim resonated. J. M. van der Laan explores the symbolic possibilities of the mysterious Eternal-Feminine. Frederick Burwick examines Coleridge’s critique of Goethe’s Faust and his own plans for a Faustian tale on Michael Scott. Andrew Bush demonstrates how Estanislao del Campo’s poem “Fausto” retells Gounod’s opera in the sociolect of Argentine gauchos. David G. John examines complete productions of Goethe’s Faust by Peter Stein and the Goetheanum. Jörg Esleben surveys contemporary Canadian interplay with Goethe’s Faust. Susanne Ledanff discusses the significance of Goethe’s Faust for Werner Fritsch’s avant-garde “Theater of the Now.” Bruce J. MacLennan examines Faust from the perspective of a researcher in several Faustian technologies: artificial intelligence, autonomous robotics, artificial life, and artificial morphogenesis.

Book Goethe s Faust

Download or read book Goethe s Faust written by John R. Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987, this is a thorough and lucid introduction and commentary to the whole of Goethe’s Faust. It gives the student of German and European literature valuable insights into the most important work of Germany’s foremost poet. German quotations are translated or paraphrased in English and a detailed knowledge of German literature is not assumed. The book traces Goethe’s work on the play over 60 years of his creative career and surveys its critical reception over the 200 years since its first appearance. Part One is analysed as a mimetic tragedy, Part Two as an historical and cultural profile of Goethe’s own times. The commentary guides the reader carefully through its subtleties and multi-layered references and provides a broad and coherent structure for the overall understanding of the work. It suggests provocative interpretations of some figures and episodes in Part Two and places renewed emphasis on parts of the work that often receive relatively little attention. An appendix surveys the metres and verse forms of the play.

Book The Faust Legend

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  • Author : Sara Munson Deats
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2019-09-19
  • ISBN : 110847585X
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book The Faust Legend written by Sara Munson Deats and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the influence of the Faust legend on drama and film from the sixteenth century to the contemporary era.

Book Faust

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  • Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 648 pages

Download or read book Faust written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1976 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition includes Parts I and II complete. The backgrounds include the medieval Chapbook, the puppet play, and a surviving fragment of G.E. Lessing's Faust play. The author's plans and sketches, and a rich selection of his letters and comments to Eckermann, trace Goethe's lifelong involvement in the work, as does an analytical table showing the phases of composition. The contemporary reactions show how rapidly Faust came to be seen as a quintessential expression of German Romantic consciousness. The essays have been chosen to help readers perceive and understand Faust's extraordinary thematic and formal complexity--Cover.

Book Faust

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  • Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780393972825
  • Pages : 737 pages

Download or read book Faust written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2001 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete annotated translation of Goethe's "Faust," plus extensive interpretive notes, "Faust" illustrations and other visual sources used by Goethe, several pieces of Goethe's correspondence and commentary, eleven contemporary reviews by well-known writers, and ten modern pieces of criticism; also includes a Goethe chronology and selected bibliography.

Book International Faust Studies

Download or read book International Faust Studies written by Lorna Fitzsimmons and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major interdisciplinary collection captures the vitality and increasingly global significance of the Faust figure in literature, theatre and music. Bringing together scholars from around the world, International Faust Studies examines questions of adaptation, reception and translation centering on Faust discourse in a diversity of cultural contexts, including the Chinese, Japanese, Indian, African, Brazilian and Canadian, as well as the European, British and American. It broadens the field by including studies of lesser known or neglected Faust discourse, including the translation of Goethe's Faust recently attributed to Coleridge, in addition to the canonical.

Book Goethe  Faust Part One

Download or read book Goethe Faust Part One written by Nicholas Boyle and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1987 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a survey of early Faust stories and a detailed reading of Faust Part One.

Book Goethe s Faust

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  • Author : Stuart Atkins
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1958
  • ISBN : 9780674356009
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Goethe s Faust written by Stuart Atkins and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music written by Lorna Fitzsimmons and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its emergence in sixteenth-century Germany, the magician Faust's quest has become one of the most profound themes in Western history. Though variants are found across all media, few adaptations have met with greater acclaim than in music. Bringing together more than two dozen authors in a foundational volume, The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music testifies to the spectacular impact the Faust theme has exerted over the centuries. The Handbook's three-part organization enables readers to follow the evolution of Faust in music across time and stylistic periods. Part I explores symphonic, choral, chamber, and solo Faust works by composers from Beethoven to Schnittke. Part II discusses the range of Faustian operas, and Part III examines Faust's presence in ballet and musical theater. Illustrating the interdisciplinary relationships between music and literature and the fascinating tapestry of intertextual relationships among the works of Faustian music themselves, the volume suggests that rather than merely retelling the story of Faust, these musical compositions contribute significant insights on the tale and its unrivalled cultural impact.