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Brian H. Gill
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Faustus: Good Angel, Bad Angel, Parma and Politics
(From Ken Eckert, via Wikimedia Commons, used w/o permission.) A year and three weeks ago, I started writing about Marlowe’s “Faustus” play: “The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus.” Three months later, I’d finished three more. … Continue reading
Posted in Discursive Detours, Marlowe's Faustus, Series
Tagged angels, art, demons, free will, history, politics
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Space Aliens: Perceptions, Assumptions
Throughout the ages, Saints and sages have pondered the big questions. Who are we? What are we? Why are our lives so messed up? Storytellers and movie makers — these groups overlap — also reflect on human nature from time … Continue reading
Pentheus, Pwyll and Pan Twardowski: Fairly Faustian
(Marguerite’s garden in Gounod’s “Faust,” set design by Édouard Desplechin. (1859)) Christopher Marlowe based his “Dr. Faustus” on Germany’s Faust legend, which was in turn inspired by Johann Georg Faust’s reputation. And on J. G. Faust’s abrupt death in 1520, … Continue reading
Posted in Marlowe's Faustus, Series
Tagged angels, demons, folklore and myth, history, Satan
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