Marlowe Christopher : Doctor Faustus (Sc) (Signet classics) - Softcover

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9780451517104: Marlowe Christopher : Doctor Faustus (Sc) (Signet classics)

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ISBN 10: 0451517105 ISBN 13: 9780451517104

Publisher: Signet Classics, 1969

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“Doctor Faustus” or “The tragical history of the life and death of Doctor Faustus” is a play by Christopher Marlowe first performed in 1594 and published in 1604. “Doctor Faustus” is adapted from the German “Faust”. Faustus is bored; he has reached the limits of knowledge in many disciplines. He asks his servant to call on two famous magicians. These magicians explain to him how to call on the Good angel and the Bad angel. Then Mephistophilis, Lucifer’s servant, appears and talks to Faustus, who strikes a deal; he will get 24 years of life during which Mephistophilis will be his servant, after which he will be damned and live in hell for eternity.

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Paul Menzer is Professor and Director of the Mary Baldwin College Shakespeare and Performance programme at Mary Baldwin College, USA. A practising playwright, he is also the author of The Hamlets: Cues, Q's, and remembered texts (2009), Anecdotal Shakespeare: A New Performance History (2015), and Making History: The American Shakespeare Center and Permanent Revolution.

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