This book traces the evolution of the Faust myth from the Sixteenth century to modern times. The authors studied include Marlowe, Calderon, Milton, Goethe, Byron, Dostoevsky, Wilde, Thomas Mann, and Salman Rushdie.
D. Hawkes
enlightenment Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Martin Luther
'An astonishing thesis which Hawkes presents with an astonishing boldness' Renaissance Quarterly