Doctor Faustus (play)

The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus ( engl. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus ) is a drama of the English Renaissance writer Christopher Marlowe.

Formation

It was inspired by the translated into English Historia von D. Johann Faust, which even Goethe later inspired.

Probably a year after the first edition ( 1587 ) of the German Faust book was published in 1588, the first English translation. From the first surviving print of the English translation of the Faust Book History of the Damnable Life, and Deserved Death of Doctor Iohn Faustus is known today only an output of 1592. The English translation of the German Faust book was published in 1588 first Marlowe A Ballad of the life and death of Doctor Faustus Doctor Faustus the great conquerer, which was submitted to the " Stationers Register" on 28 February 1589 after Marlowe's " Doctor Faustus Tragicall History of " with application on December 18, 1589 whose main role played Ned Alleyn for the Admiral's Men in Henslowe 's Rose Theatre in 1589 in the " Stationers register ". The later published already in 1588 played theater versions of Dr. Faustus exist in two variations, the A- and B - edition 1604 edition 1616, both of which are heavily modified " corrupted " texts. Robert Greene in his Menaphon was the first who attacked Marlowe for his portrayal of Dr. Faustus. The character of Dr. Faustus represents the powerless and know greedy people that knows no boundaries and even allied with the devil to satisfy his lofty desires of exceeding human limitations and to realize the deep-seated desires and longings investigated. The piece features the demolition of the narrow social and intellectual corsets of time and the search for the absolute, which is further differentiated in Goethe later. Faust is ultimately doomed to failure, because there is no compass for the right course for this search. Marlowe marks the swan song of the inordinate fist in a profound desperate final monologue. This last monologue presents itself as a repeat of missed opportunities and imagination of the upcoming horror as well as a delayed continuation of such forward- believing and power-mad early dialogue dar. One can easily see in the metaphor of human life. Marlowe's story of obsessive Faustus is both a folk play with plenty of plastic and a moral drama with considerable philosophical depth.

It is believed that Thomas Nashe, Thomas Dekker and William Rowley have made at a later date on the piece changes. The first issue of Doctor Faustus had 1485 lines, while the second grew to 2131 lines. Henslowe 's records (1602 ) on payments to William Bird and Samuel Rowley for additions ( adicyones [" additions " ] to doctor fautus ) point in this direction.

In Marlowe's work, among other things monologues of Faust occur where the thirst for knowledge occurs as a crucial element to light. This view is new in the processing of the Faust material and features from then on many fist - narratives.

Marlowe is also regarded as the first recipient of the substance, of the figure Faust reclaims some positive aspects.

Expenditure

  • Christopher Marlowe: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. Dt. Amended after the first English printing of 1604 ( Translator's Adolf sea bass ). Wiesbaden Insel-Verlag 1949 (1952 acquisition in the island - library as No. 292 /2). Taken over in 1964 by Reclam Stuttgart ( Stuttgart 1128 RUB )
  • Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus. The tragic story of the life and death of Doctor Faustus ( translator's Alfred van der Velde ). Leipzig Reclam -Verlag, 1966 ( RUB Leipzig 292)

Film adaptations

  • Literary work
  • Literature (16th century)
  • Literature ( English )
  • Drama
  • Johann Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Edward Alleyn Robert Greene (dramatist) Doctor Faustus (1967 film)
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