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Faust - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Spiess and Marlowe represent Faust as a scoundrel justly punished with eternal damnation, but Lessing instead saw in him the symbol of man's heroic striving for knowledge and power and therefore as worthy of praise and salvation. |
| | Lessing's view of Faust as seeker was continued by Goethe in one of the greatest dramatic poems ever written. |
| | Spohr's and Busoni's Faust operas are based on other literary models. |
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