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FaustOn the coverFaust and Marguerite in the Garden, Ary Scheffer, 1846
Faust
The restless scholar Faust, weary of all knowledge, strikes a wager with the devil Mephistopheles: his soul for a taste of everything life can offer. The supreme German drama, and its most haunting thread is the love of the innocent Gretchen.
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The great modern myth of ambition and the soul, by turns philosophical, funny, and heartbreaking. Part One’s tragedy of Gretchen is among the most moving things ever written for the stage.
SettingLegendary Germany
An early-modern Germany of scholars’ studies, town squares, and witches’ kitchens, reimagined by a Romantic genius as the stage for the restless, striving modern spirit itself.