[Sad]
Author: Wehpudicabok
Description: The creator-goddess of Equestria, Faust, has found none willing to notice the fruits of her artistic labor. Can a deal with the Equestrian devil remedy this?The Tragedy of Faust, the Pony Queen Dramatis Personae
The Tragedy of Faust, the Pony Queen Act I
The Tragedy of Faust, the Pony Queen Act II
The Tragedy of Faust, the Pony Queen Act III
Additional Tags: Metafiction, wordplay, blank verse, classical literature, tragedy
44 comments:
FAUST
A-hyuck
Oh my...this sounds interesting.
Not too sure about this one...
Hmmm....
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lulz? i should love this but i feel skeptical, time to test it, MAKE IT OR BREAK! LIVE AND LET DIE!
so goddamn Meta.
Is this anything like the Devil and Daniel Webster? Or is it the Devil and Picard? Or is it the Devil and Bill&Ted? Or is it the transexual Devil and the Powerpuff Girls?
*Fic mentions Faust*
How not get Random tag? No really, what?
Interesting, the title is reminiscent of The Tragicle History of Dr Faustus... clever title deserves a peek at least. :P
I can't complain about the epic blank verse consistency, except that I usually like to keep my Shakespeare and ponies separate.
A ponified version of the Faustian Bargain is WAY overdue considering the name match. I think the only one we've had before was a comedy fic with Trixie? This is the first to actually use Faust for it, anyway.
100 bits the devil is Ingram.
Well... this could certainly be interesting to read. :P
@Godot-17 why?
Ehhhhhhhh
The tags and description make me want to read it... But I don't know if I can handle another sad story...
@Unknown
His name is Daniel.
"The Devil and Daniel Ingram". Yes.
Gonna Ponify ALL the Shakespeare!
Ha, that was great...Don't know why it was marked sad though, I was pretty much chuckling the whole time.
@dyressi
Oh really? In that case I will read away!
I loathe Shakespeare so, yet Mister Sethisto has made Shakespeare-esque language bearable. Well done.
I saw "Faust", thought that there was no way it could be Lauren Faust, then found out that it actually was. Awesome.
Was it really necessary to make four separate files for this? Seems like a waste of space when they could just put it all in one file and separate them with NEXT ACT in large font. Other than that, didn't bother reading it once I saw the style it was written in.
@Specter Von Baren
Your will is your own, but I would say you are missing out.
Anyways:
I hope this gets the credit it deserves for being as good as it was. I greatly enjoyed reading this.
Wow, i'm impressed! blank verse is hard to write and the author actual kept Iambic pentameter throughout the whole thing very impressive. I enjoyed reading Beowulf and I enjoyed reading this. It hast he feel of a tragedy and it's so meta.
it takes a refined sense of literature to enjoy this properly I think.
in any case brovo 5 stars for you.
Author here. I'm glad to see people enjoying my story. It wasn't easy to write, believe me. And what's left may be even harder...
A note on the tags. I had a hard time trying to decide how to tag the story, much harder in fact than actually conceiving of the plot. It's sort of sad, but not really; it's sort of a crossover, but not really; it's sort of random, but not really... you get the idea. I settled on the "sad" tag mainly because of the ending. I don't want to spoil too much, though, so I'll stop talking about that here.
@Specter Von Baren:
Much of the presentation of this story, including the decision to keep acts strictly separate, was inspired by my experiences reading plays in literature classes. The feeling is that there should be five distinct movements (if I may borrow a musical term), so posting them as separate files is sort of a modern-technological parallel for that.
FINALLY someone makes this goddamn connection! This is how she got her awesome skillz!!!
Lauren FAUST, The Devil and Daniel Ingram. This is just too perfect.
Also, you all have no idea how hard I am kicking myself for not thinking of "The Devil and Daniel Ingram." Well, somepony else is free to write that if they wish.
Love the title.
Wow, this was a great read. The rhyme scheme flowed well, and the premise is very clever indeed.
The vocabulary has just the right touch of antiqueness to make it feel weathered, and I'll definitely keep on the lookout for more chapt- erm, arcs of this beauty! :D
I love that people keep referring to this as shakespeare, when The Tragicle History of Doctor Faustus was written by his contemporary Christopher Marlowe.
Funny. I always thought it was written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
It annoys me that as I read this, all I can think is "Exeunt does not apply when there's only one character on stage."
Sweet.
A FAUSTian bargain. You mad genius you.
@Annomaniac Marlowe wrote his version first, Goethe 200-ish years later. Although, the first version of the story does originate in Germany, earlier than Marlowe.
@Wehpudicabok
Hhm... I see. Glad that you have a reason for it and it wasn't just done haphazardly.
That was brilliance and cleverness I did not expect.
I think the Goddess should read this.
@Parchment Scroll:
Ugh. Well, I did this from memory, I was bound to get some things wrong. Gonna go fix it.
@Parchment
And thanks for pointing it out. :)
I dont really like it. Its confusing and if its a play there should be a vid of it.
It would be better if it was a story not a play
Omg fic with Faust? You know the pony rule 34? Everything that exists will be shipped. I'm waiting for the inevitable with horror...
Holy blank verse, this is incredible! I can only imagine how much work writing this must have been.
Marlow's Faustus has always been one of my favorite plays, and to see it ponified is a welcome treat. I'm looking forward to the final acts!
Is this supposed to be a story ? I mean, really ?
...It's worth 'something', but I must say that each parts are very short (some even shorter than short), and I'm not convinced by this odd ''format'' for the 'story'...
This is some gorgeous fiction. I knew exactly how this would play out after reading the first act, but am eagerly awaiting it's completion anyway. The mark of a fine play.
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