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==History== | ==History== | ||
Faust is a real person that was born around 1480 in the small town of Knittlingen. He must | Faust is a real person that was born around 1480 in the small town of Knittlingen. He must have had some formal education and it is likely that he spent a number of years as a wandering scholar, although it now seems certain that he styled himself as a 'Doctor' without having any right to the title (Smeed 1). He practiced magic and was proficient in hypnotism. He even cast a horoscope for the Bishop of Bamberg in 1520. He caught peoples attention where ever he went with his flamboyant personality. Tradition has it that he died in Staufen in 1540 or 1541; the house in which this is supposed to have happened is now an inn (Smeed 2). | ||
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==Works Cited== | ==Works Cited== | ||
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* Atkins, Stuart. ''Goethe’s Faust: A Literary Analysis''. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958. | |||
* Brown, Jane. ''Goethe’s Faust: The German Tragedy''. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986. | |||
* Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. ''Faust'', Part 1. ''The Norton Anthology of Western Literature''. Vol. 2. 8th Ed. Trans. Martin Greenberg. Sarah Lawall, et al, eds. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006. [All primary text citations are taken from this edition unless otherwise noted.] | |||
* Heffner, S. Helmut Rehder, and W. Twaddell. ''Goethe’s Faust: Introduction Part I Text and Notes''. Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 1954 | |||
* Smeed, J.W. ''Faust in Literature''. New York: Oxford UP, 1971. | |||
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