Brecht’s play includes poetic quatrains before each scene as well as a marvelous “Ballad of the Orders” mocking society stratification. A humanist and satirical masterpiece. Audio includes music cues as well as Dirksen’s own digest of the full show.
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The Ballad of Dr. Faustus
Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus is transplanted to the American frontier. Videos below, music cues also posted.