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Prologue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2019

Sara Munson Deats
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University of South Florida
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The literature of the Western world has been dominated by a few pervasive myths that have obsessed human consciousness for hundreds of years. A number of these immediately rush to mind: the Cinderella fantasy (perhaps the formative myth of our Western civilization); the biblical story of David and Goliath; the folk tale of Jack the Giant Killer or St. George and the dragon; the narrative of King Arthur, the Round Table, and the Holy Grail. My study focuses on another of the seminal legends that define Western culture: the magical Faust story. This hardy legend found its roots in the marshy soil of medieval folklore, budded in the Renaissance, blossomed in nineteenth-century drama and opera, and flowered in twentieth- and twenty-first-century drama, opera, novel, and cinema.

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The Faust Legend
From Marlowe and Goethe to Contemporary Drama and Film
, pp. 1 - 10
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • Prologue
  • Sara Munson Deats, University of South Florida
  • Book: The Faust Legend
  • Online publication: 02 September 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614290.001
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  • Prologue
  • Sara Munson Deats, University of South Florida
  • Book: The Faust Legend
  • Online publication: 02 September 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614290.001
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  • Prologue
  • Sara Munson Deats, University of South Florida
  • Book: The Faust Legend
  • Online publication: 02 September 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614290.001
Available formats
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