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Doctor Faustus (Johann Fennhoff) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is depicted usually as an adversary of Captain America . An Austrian psychiatrist and criminal mastermind who employs psychological manipulation on his enemies, the character was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby , and first appeared in Captain America ...
Doctor Faustus wordt wel beschouwd als het meest complexe en minst toegankelijke werk van Mann, maar in literaire zin geldt het voor menig Mann-liefhebber als een hoogtepunt in zijn oeuvre. Het werk werd in 1999 door 99 literatuurdeskundigen gekozen tot een van de tien beste Duitstalige romans van de twintigste eeuw .
Goethe ha modo di avvicinarsi al Doctor Faustus di Marlowe già in giovane età, durante uno spettacolo di marionette (i tradizionali Puppenspiel tedeschi). La storia dell’alchimista, metafora del rapporto dell’uomo con la conoscenza e con il senso ultimo della vita, attraversa tutta la vita del poeta e drammaturgo tedesco, dalle prime bozze del 1772 fino all’edizione definitiva del 1831.
Doctor Faustus, a talented German scholar at Wittenburg, rails against the limits of human knowledge. He has learned everything he can learn, or so he thinks, from the conventional academic disciplines.
Doctor Faustus is a 1967 British horror film adaptation of the 1588 Christopher Marlowe play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus directed by Richard Burton and Nevill Coghill. The first theatrical film version of a Marlowe play, it was the only film directed by Burton or Coghill, Burton's Oxford University mentor. [2]
As the play begins, Doctor Faustus is in his study, rejecting medieval scholarship: he has grown dissatisfied with the limits of traditional forms of knowledge and wants to learn more. Feeling that he knows all that human understanding might offer, he wants to explore magic to control nature and gain knowledge, wealth, and political power.
Faustus tells them that he has decided to experiment in necromancy and needs them to teach him some of the fundamentals. When he is alone in his study, Faustus begins experimenting with magical incantations, and suddenly Mephistophilis appears, in the form of an ugly devil. Faustus sends him away, telling him to reappear in the form of a friar.
