She was the scarlet woman of mid-19th century Paris, damned by her contemporaries and by literary historians ever since. A bouquet of red roses transformed her from a small-time cabaret singer ...

With Faustus: That Damned Woman by Chris Bush, we’re at last presented with a sustained re-examination of the most famous pact in world literature from a female slant.

This weekend in Chicago, a small theater troupe with a big resume will present all of the poems in Charles Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal" — sung by more than 50 performers from around the world.