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Dr. Faustus
Contributor(s): Marlowe, Christopher (Author)

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ISBN: 0486282082     ISBN-13: 9780486282084
Publisher: Dover Publications
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 1994
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Annotation: One of the glories of Elizabethan drama: Marlowe's powerful retelling of the story of the learned German doctor who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. Footnotes.

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BISAC Categories:
- Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Collections
Dewey: 822.3
LCCN: 94007856
Age Level: 14-UP
Grade Level: 9-UP
Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Physical Information: 0.17" H x 5.2" W x 8.3" L (0.12 lbs) 64 pages
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One of the most durable myths in Western culture, the story of Faust tells of a learned German doctor who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. Early enactments of Faust's damnation were often the raffish fare of clowns and low comedians. But the young Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) recognized in the story of Faust's temptation and fall the elements of tragedy.
In his epic treatment of the Faust legend, Marlowe retains much of the rich phantasmagoria of its origins. There are florid visions of an enraged Lucifer, dueling angels, the Seven Deadly Sins, Faustus tormenting the Pope, and his summoning of the spirit of Alexander the Great. But the playwright created equally powerful scenes that invest the work with tragic dignity, among them the doomed man's calling upon Christ to save him and his ultimate rejection of salvation for the embrace of Helen of Troy.
With immense poetic skill, and psychological insight that foreshadowed the later work of Shakespeare and the Jacobean playwrights, Marlowe created in Dr. Faustus one of the first true tragedies in English. Vividly dramatic, rich in poetic grandeur, this classic play remains a robust and lively exemplar of the glories of Elizabethan drama.

 
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