The old German puppet play of Doctor Faust
By: turned into English with an introduction and notes by T. C. H. Hedderwick.
Contributors: Hamm, Wilhelm von.; Hedderwick, T. C. H. 1850-1918.; Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781.; Bonneschky, Guido.
Publisher: K. Paul, Trench & co.
Published: 1887
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Faust, d. ca. 1540 -- Drama.
Notes: A translation of the version preserved in Wilhelm Hamm's transcript of the ms. belonging to the puppet-player Guido Bonneschky, published at Leipzig, 1850, which is believed by Bruinier (Faust vor Goethe I. Halle, 1894) to be a forgery.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Faust, the puppet-play. Appendix: Lessing's Fragment; Notes on some mediæval magicians; Ballad of Faustus, reprinted from a copy in the Roxburghe collection, vol. II, p. 235, British museum; Editions of the puppet-play; Dramatizations of the Faust legend; Principal dates of Goethe's "Faust."