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The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust. It was probably written in 1592 or 1593, shortly before Marlowe's death.
Doctor Faustus is a scholar living in Wittenberg, Germany. Feeling that he has reached the ends of all traditional studies, he decides to pursue magic, and has his servant Wagner bring him Valdes and Cornelius, two men who can teach him how to perform magic incantations.
Apr 23, 2024 · Doctor Faustus, tragedy in five acts by Christopher Marlowe, published in 1604 but first performed a decade or so earlier. Marlowe’s play followed by only a few years the first translation into English of the medieval legend on which the play is based.
Doctor Faustus, a well-respected German scholar, grows dissatisfied with the limits of traditional forms of knowledge—logic, medicine, law, and religion—and decides that he wants to learn to practice magic.
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Doctor Faustus by English playwright Christopher Marlowe is a play first performed in the late 16th century. It is a classic tragedy that explores the themes of knowledge, power, and sacrifice. The play follows the ambitious scholar Dr. Faustus, who, dissatisfied with traditional forms of knowledge, enters into a pact with the devil ...
Doctor Faustus, novel by German writer Thomas Mann, published in 1947. It is a reworking of the Faust legend in the form of a biography of a fictional 20th-century composer and is interwoven with an exploration of how and why Germany chose to ally itself with dark forces in its embrace of fascism.
Faustus is the protagonist and tragic hero of Marlowe’s play. He is a contradictory character, capable of tremendous eloquence and possessing awesome ambition, yet prone to a strange, almost willful blindness and a willingness to waste powers that he has gained at great cost.
Available now, fully annotated, and made easy to read and easy to understand, the definitive edition of Christopher Marlowe's DOCTOR FAUSTUS, the most famous non-Shakespearean play of the Elizabethan era. The play can be downloaded to your E-reader, printed out, or read online.
Doctor Faustus. Faustus, illustration by Edwin Austin Abbey. Faust, hero of one of the most durable legends in Western folklore and literature, the story of a German necromancer or astrologer who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power.
