Supposedly inspired by a folktale Dumas heard as a boy, Le Meneur de Loups is set in Villers-Cotterêts, Dumas hometown, in the year 1780. Thibault, a cobbler, is thrashed by the Lord of Vez s gamekeep..
Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan tragedy Doctor Faustus, also known as The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, is based on German tales concerning the titular Faust character. I..