The American poet Arthur Davison Ficke retells the Faust story in five acts of blank verse, with a modern Faust matched against a sardonic, bargaining Satan. The introduction reads the play as the expression of an evolutionary philosophy of life, far from the dogmatic materialism of the nineteenth century.
An ambitious early twentieth-century reworking of Goethe’s theme, for readers of verse drama and the Faust tradition. Download the free EPUB.