Goethe tells Eckermann, “ You will find the key of Faust’s salvation in these lines ” from the Chorus of Angels, near the conclusion of the Second Part: — ...

With Faust, Part 1, Jackson looks into the rich texture of Goethe's imagination, and teases out the best bits from over 900 pages of the original text. The performance will be directed by Mark ...

Sir Theodore Martin seems to be the only translator of Faust who has kept this aim of Goethe’s always in view; but he undertakes to make a new English poem, and follows Shelley in altering at ...

Goethe's work centers on the figure of Doctor Faust, a depressed scholar who, after a failed suicide attempt, sells his soul to Mephistopheles, the Devil, for exceptional knowledge and pleasures.

The opening titles announce the screenplay is based on Goethe’s two-part tragedy (finished in 1808 and 1832), though visual citations range from Rembrandt to F.W. Murnau, whose silent work ...