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Title: Mr. Faust

Author: Arthur Davison Ficke

Release Date: February 25, 2008 [EBook #24556]

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THE MODERN DRAMA SERIES
EDITED BY EDWIN BJOeRKMAN

MR. FAUST

BY

ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE

NEW YORK
MITCHELL KENNERLEY
MCMXIII

COPYRIGHT 1913 BY
MITCHELL KENNERLEY

THE.PLIMPTON.PRESS
NORWOOD.MASS.U.S.A

CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTION vii

LIST OF PLAYS BY ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE x

MR. FAUST 1

_The author gratefully acknowledges his debt for permission
to reprint one of the lyrics herein, which appeared
originally in "Poetry."_

INTRODUCTION

Through all the work of Arthur Davison Ficke runs a note of bigness
that compels attention even when one feels that he is still groping
both for form and thought. In "Mr. Faust" this note has assumed
commanding proportions, while at the same time the uncertainty
manifest in some of the earlier work has almost wholly disappeared.
Intellectually as well as artistically, this play shows a surprising
maturity. It impresses me, for one, as the expression of a
well-rounded and very profound philosophy of life--and this philosophy
stands in logical and sympathetic relationship to what the western
world to-day regards as its most advanced thought. The evolutionary
conception of life is the fou