As the act ends, Phorkyas is revealed to be Mephistopheles in disguise. In the fourth act, Faust finds himself taken away from Arcadia to a mountain top in Germany. Watching a cloud, that is ...

Most accounts include the initial transaction: Mephistopheles, Lucifer’s lieutenant, promises wealth, fame and more in ...

Agatha All Along might have just reignited theories about Mephisto's MCU debut by referencing an important demonic figure ...

He acted well Faust’s transformation from aged sadness to reinvigoration ... as did swords that became crosses as Mephistopheles was briefly put on the ropes. As Marguerite’s soldier brother, Valentin ...

[In the beginning was the deed!] (l. 1237). This inadvertently exorcises the demon, effects Mephistopheles’ appearance – and abruptly concludes Faust's sole ‘scholarly labour’ and foray into ...

I think it was. To render the thought plausible, I propose that we begin by considering, like Faust (and at that very moment when Mephistopheles arrives on the scene), the greatest deed imaginable, ...

He describes to Lily the part of his “nightmaring” in which he hears a voice paraphrasing Mephistopheles in Goethe’s “Faust”: “I am the spirit of perpetual negation. For all things ...

Faust? In the end of the “First Part,” there is nothing but pain and devastation of Faust’s own making. Grieving Faust is alone with his shame and an unremarkable realization: Namely, what we are OK ...

4’ runs throughout Minnesota until Sept. 15. Dr. Johann Faust(Maurice Fields) and extraplanar entity Méphistophélès(Justin Spenner) team up on “a fanatical quest to save humanity and reach ...

San Francisco Opera is presenting the West Coast premiere of composer Poul Ruders and librettist Paul Bentley’s opera The ...

A new biography by AN Wilson shows how the playwright, poet, scientist and statesman poured himself into his greatest work. By John Banville Some biographers, perhaps more than we know of, come to ...