SOURCE: "Heavenly Helen," in Etudes de Lettres, Vol. 4, 1987, 11-21.
In the excerpt below, Forsyth examines the depiction of Helen in Doctor Faustus as an ambiguous, destabilizing character, comparing this presentation with her appearance in several classical texts.
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