Doctor Faustus

by Christopher Marlowe
List(s):"Racine Library List"
"Carp 500"
"Treasury of the Familiar"
Category: "Drama"
Pages:76
Year of Publication:1594
Date Read:04/22/1999
Notes:Marlowe retells the story of Faust, the doctor-turned-necromancer, who makes a pact with the devil in order to obtain knowledge and power. Both Doctor Faustus and Mephistopheles, who is the devil’s intermediary in the play are subtly and powerfully portrayed.

COMMENTS — Marlowe’s play followed by only a few years the first translation into English of the medieval legend on which it is based.
My Rating: 5

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Review - Doctor Faustus

There's a quotation from this play in A Treasury of the Familiar.

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.

Reviewed by Roger on 2014-08-03 12:24:48

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