Faust

Author: Goethe (Germany)
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: There was indeed a historical figure named Faust, who died in a laboratory accident during alchemical experiments in 1540. As a result, he became a heretic that the Middle Ages could not tolerate and became a prominent figure in folklore. Goethe devoted sixty years of his life to writing five tragedies based on Faust's rebellious nature, which he experienced throughout his life: knowledge, love, serving rulers, beauty, and ideals. This thus paints a magnificent historical and folk tapestry of three hundred years in Europe!