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has become alienaieci" å reviev¡ of the Literatu-re
insoirecì by fÌris concern i.¡ill illustr.aie the i:oint"
.{s early ss L599 a Si,'rabian b1' ¡¡" neÌìie of
Georg lìu-d-olf ,.ijC¡ian recast the Faustbuch (Vol,ksbu"ch)
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or' L587, 'r,o be follo',red in L67L bi' a ^r.r.rÌ1berg oh,u-sici-an
caIIed üikolaus PJli-lze::. 'j'he jinslish drama'cisi
Chrisiol:her iìiarlol've based his drama 'Ihe j:ragiqal Ìiistory
oi fr, Fauslu.s (f 5s¿¡:) u-pon ihe Ger¡nan Volksbucl: l+hich
hacl reachecl- ongland-, ancl Gottholci *phrairri Lessing had.
sL:etched a fragnenta.ry scene enti'ûIed 1þ!ist uno- Siebe.n-
teís'ber in his seventeenth Literaturbrief o.f L6
i¡ebru.ary L759. 'i-har, Uiie poou-lari-r,y of ihe irauslchuch vias
not confinecl to ùerrnany is seen not only in ihis
refereirce to ,.larlorn¡er but aiso in the fact tha.b the S.oies
book of L587, or one of iLs variants, i¡ias translated into
Enelish, irrench and Du.tch -befor"e the end cf bhe century.
Onl r¡ el e''¡en veârs I ¡nsed heit'¡een thr. nlrhlicai.i on of rhe
original folk-book and the la-st conteniporârir tra.nsla.tion,
for the Durch trans-.1-atìon of üarl iJatie:r:L da.tes fron L592s
a.ni tlte .rrench of r/ic'ûor ialma Ca,¡.s¡ frcr:r f 59S. Tire
earl-i-est editron hno-,'¡n in the anglish language is cìated
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