Faust Scenes 1-5

Professor Kozlowski discusses the first five scenes of Goethe's Faust, Part One, including the strange and tangled construction of the play, Goethe's biography, similarities to Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, and the Job-esque bargain between God and Mephistopheles over Faust's soul. This episode is preceded by a video briefly discussing the tenets of Romantic philosophy, found here: https://youtu.be/2-F7ZzKHs9s