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Haha. I read the entire review under the false impression it were about Doktor Faustus (Doktor with a K) and it became increasingly weird until I finally recognized the author's name :)
Matt wrote: "Haha. I read the entire review under the false impression it were about Doktor Faustus (Doktor with a K) and it became increasingly weird until I finally recognized the author's name :)"
Matt, the Marlowe play is excellent to read and even better when you see it performed.
I have not read Mann's novel or Goethe's play. I guess I should.
Don't believe everything you see about Marlowe's life, especially if it is in a film about Shakespeare. Marlowe died in a bar-fight, but Shakespeare was NOT the one who killed him.
I concur that the play is excellent. Especially the final soliloquy.
And it's amazing how many people followed your point 6!
There are lotz of important points here!
One of the vague reading aims I have for next year is getting more familiar with the Fausstoff, so I want to read Goethe's Faust, Mann's Doktor Faust, and Mann Jr.'s Mephisto. Now I think I have to add this play too.
I hope you do! It's very short, easily read in one sitting. And some parts of it are extraordinary. I admit that, after reading this, I think the Marlovian theory of Shakespeare's identity is a bit less ludicrous, just because Marlowe was such a powerful writer.
Sold :) [Although I probably will need more than one sitting]
Hey, what about the enigmatic muse? Or was she included under "brothels and bar fights"?
Actually, I included that one under "Be enigmatic."
Ah, of course! Silly of me.
I must admit I hadn't realized it was this easy. I'm predicting several more successful Elizabethan playwrights by the end of the year.
It's harder than it looks, Manny. Particularly step 2. Ask a dramatist to fake his own death or to be Shakespeare, and it's no problem. But ask them to set a strict schedule? Forget about it.
I suppose bar-room brawls are harder to schedule than I first realized. You have a point.
Matt wrote: "Haha. I read the entire review under the false impression it were about Doktor Faustus (Doktor with a K) and it became increasingly weird until I finally recognized the author's name :)"
I have suffered this Fausti confusion myself a few times.
There's also a musical version set at in South Bend, Indiana...
Manny wrote: "I suppose bar-room brawls are harder to schedule than I first realized. You have a point."
It gets easier as the drinking proceeds.
What more need be said?
Oh, wait… should I have written that in Latin?
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Haha. I read the entire review under the false impression it were about Doktor Faustus (Doktor with a K) and it became increasingly weird until I finally recognized the author's name :)
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Matt wrote: "Haha. I read the entire review under the false impression it were about Doktor Faustus (Doktor with a K) and it became increasingly weird until I finally recognized the author's name :)"Matt, the Marlowe play is excellent to read and even better when you see it performed.
I have not read Mann's novel or Goethe's play. I guess I should.
Don't believe everything you see about Marlowe's life, especially if it is in a film about Shakespeare. Marlowe died in a bar-fight, but Shakespeare was NOT the one who killed him.
I concur that the play is excellent. Especially the final soliloquy.
And it's amazing how many people followed your point 6!
There are lotz of important points here!
One of the vague reading aims I have for next year is getting more familiar with the Fausstoff, so I want to read Goethe's Faust, Mann's Doktor Faust, and Mann Jr.'s Mephisto. Now I think I have to add this play too.
I hope you do! It's very short, easily read in one sitting. And some parts of it are extraordinary. I admit that, after reading this, I think the Marlovian theory of Shakespeare's identity is a bit less ludicrous, just because Marlowe was such a powerful writer.
Sold :) [Although I probably will need more than one sitting]
Hey, what about the enigmatic muse? Or was she included under "brothels and bar fights"?
Actually, I included that one under "Be enigmatic."
Ah, of course! Silly of me.I must admit I hadn't realized it was this easy. I'm predicting several more successful Elizabethan playwrights by the end of the year.
It's harder than it looks, Manny. Particularly step 2. Ask a dramatist to fake his own death or to be Shakespeare, and it's no problem. But ask them to set a strict schedule? Forget about it.
I suppose bar-room brawls are harder to schedule than I first realized. You have a point.
Matt wrote: "Haha. I read the entire review under the false impression it were about Doktor Faustus (Doktor with a K) and it became increasingly weird until I finally recognized the author's name :)"I have suffered this Fausti confusion myself a few times.
There's also a musical version set at in South Bend, Indiana...
Manny wrote: "I suppose bar-room brawls are harder to schedule than I first realized. You have a point."
It gets easier as the drinking proceeds.
What more need be said?Oh, wait… should I have written that in Latin?