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The Manager, along with the Dramatic Poet and Player of Comic Roles, is staging a production of Faust for a German theater in the “Prelude on the Stage” scene. He advocates presenting plays with lots of action and variety, as well as elaborate scenes and special effects, the better to sell tickets to all kinds of theatergoers. He represents the pragmatic, populist perspective on art: distributing, selling, and entertaining.
The Manager Quotes in Faust
The Faust quotes below are all either spoken by The Manager or refer to The Manager. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Prelude in the Theater Quotes
So now upon our modest stage act out
creation in its every aspect,
and move with all deliberate haste
from heaven, through the world, to hell!
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The Manager Character Timeline in Faust
The timeline below shows where the character The Manager appears in Faust. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Prelude in the Theater
In a German theater, the Manager, the Dramatic Poet, and the Player of Comic Roles are preparing a production of Faust....
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The Manager reminds the Dramatic Poet that their audience will be expecting lots of action and variety....
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The Manager assures the Dramatic Poet that his feelings aren’t hurt by such accusations. Somebody who wants...
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The Dramatic Poet becomes indignant. He tells the Manager to hire someone else if he expects him to forfeit his fundamental human right to...
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...and feel boundless joy, only for misery to ensue: good material for a novel. The Manager even instructs the Dramatic Poet to make his play just like this, out of common...
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...on to say that it’s up to old gentleman like the Dramatic Poet and the Manager to set their own goals and approach them at their own pace, and suggests that...
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The Manager is growing restless: it’s time to get to work. He says that the company needs...
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