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appeared, in which are attributed to him many marvelous exploits and in

which he is held up as an awful warning against the excessive desire for

secular learning and admiration for antique beauty which characterized the

humanist movement of the time. In this aspect the Faust legend is an

expression of early popular Protestantism, and of its antagonism to the

scientific and classical tendencies of the Renaissance.

While a succession of Faust books were appearing in Germany, the original

life was translated into English and dramatized by Marlowe. English players