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Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

Paperback | Pages: 64 pages

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Title	:	Dr. Faustus
Author	:	Christopher Marlowe
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 64 pages
Published	:	October 20th 1994 by Dover Publications (first published 1589)
Categories	:	Classics. Plays. Drama. Fiction. Fantasy

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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, that was first performed sometime between 1588 and Marlowe's death in 1593. Two different versions of the play were published in the Jacobean era, several years later. The powerful effect of early productions of the play is indicated by the legends that quickly accrued around them—that actual devils once appeared on the stage during a performance, "to the great amazement of both the actors and spectators", a sight that was said to have driven some spectators mad.

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Original Title:	The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus
ISBN:	0486282082 (ISBN13: 9780486282084)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Doctor Faustus, Mephostophilis
Setting:	Germany

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The history of Dr. Faustus, its composition and its performances, is obscured by legend and shrouded in surmise. We know it was wildly popular, but not when it was written or first performed: perhaps as early as 1588, when Marlowe was twenty-four, or perhaps as late in 1593, the year Marlowe died. At any rate, it so captured the public imagination that people told stories about it. The most vivid of the legends tells us that real devils were once conjured during a performance, that actors were

To Dance with the Devil24 January 2014 Well it looks like my commentary is going to disappear among the hundred or so other commentaries that have appeared on Goodreads in relation to this magnificent play. Okay, poor old Marlowe has unfortunately not just been overshadowed by Shakespeare within the theatre circuit of Elizabethan England (that is if he wasn't Shakespeare in the first place gee that's just opened up a huge can of worms) Anyway, as I was saying, it wasn't enough that as a

There are two texts for Marlowe's definitive treatment of the Faust myth, and no real consensus on which is more authoritative. The A text is shorter and punchier, but the B text includes some good stuff too. The arguments, briefly:- Marlowe expanded his hit play into the B text, which is therefore authoritative;- Someone else added some shit in later, so the A text is authoritative.Don't believe the Wikipedia page, btw, it's a mess.I prefer the A text. The B text is quite a bit longer, and

I don't know about you, but my idea of a good time is to sneak into a gathering of Elizabethan literary scholars and just provoke the living shit out of them. I like to get them feuding about whether Shakespeare was a genius of surpassing magnitude, standing well above Marlowe and the rest in raw poetic brilliance, or simply the only one among the group who attended a marketing class. It's fun to re-open the perpetual debate on Edward de Vere's alleged authorship of the Bard's plays, then sit

While I tease my daughter incessantly about the true identity of Shakespeare, I have to admit that while a lot of evidence points towards Christopher Marlowe and Shakespeare being the same person, I can't, in all honesty, hold up the play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus as a Shakespeare-worthy text. Yes, the magical element present in so much of Shakespeare's work is here, yes, there is a good dose of humor, and, yes, the writing itself is, well, Shakespearean. But Doctor Faustus' humor

This was actually quite entertaining to read. I've read something else based on the tale of Dr. Faustus before so I was quite familiar with the concepts and so on. I did like Goethe's tale better because it dealt with more morals and values, and had more depth to it. But this one was still quite a good read. It did a good job of building up to the judgment that had to happen at the end, but the ending was actually quite anticlimatic. Which is why this one was just an 'okay' read for me. Read for

The history of Dr. Faustus, its composition and its performances, is obscured by legend and shrouded in surmise. We know it was wildly popular, but not when it was written or first performed: perhaps as early as 1588, when Marlowe was twenty-four, or perhaps as late in 1593, the year Marlowe died. At any rate, it so captured the public imagination that people told stories about it. The most vivid of the legends tells us that real devils were once conjured during a performance, that actors were