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Time: 15 hours
Level: Intermediate
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 Introduction Resource- This unit is on Christopher Marlowe's famous play Doctor Faustus. It considers the play in relation to Marlowe's own reputation as a rule-breaker and outsider and asks whether the play criticises or seeks...
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- 1.1 Marlowe: the man Resource
- In this unit I will discuss the question of reputation in relation to a literary text, Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, which was written sometime between 1588 and 1592 and was first published in...
- 1.2 Doctor Faustus Resource
- Critics who have studied Marlowe's work have for the most part been inclined to take on trust the picture of him provided by Kyd, Baines, Beard and others, and to read the plays as statements of the author's...
- 1.3 Reading a Renaissance play Resource
- If you have never read a Renaissance play before – and even if you have – you may well find Doctor Faustus a challenging read. This is chiefly because, like the plays of Shakespeare, Doctor Faustus was...
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- 2.1 Act 1, Scene 1: ‘Yet art thou still but Faustus, and a man’ Resource
- Before looking at the play's opening scene I should add a brief note on the medieval morality play, the type of drama on which Marlowe draws in adapting The Damnable Life for the stage. After the Prologue...
- 2.2 Act 2, Scene 1: Faustus and God Resource
- By the end of Act 1, Faustus appears to have made up his mind to sell his soul to the devil in exchange for twenty-four years in which he will ‘live in all voluptuousness’ (1.3.94). Act 2, Scene 1 opens...
- 2.3 Acts 3 and 4: What does Faustus achieve? Resource
- Act 2 points repeatedly to the failure of Faustus's attempt to secure power and autonomy through his pact with Lucifer: in Act 2, Scene 1 Mephistopheles declines his request for a wife, and in Act 2, Scene...
- 2.4 Act 5, Scene 2: Faustus's last soliloquy Resource
- The play draws to a close with Faustus's final soliloquy, which is supposed to mark the last hour of his life.
- 2.5 Morality play or tragedy? Resource
- Pity and fear are the emotions that, according to the Greek philosopher Aristotle, are aroused by the experience of watching a tragedy. At the start of this chapter we asked whether Doctor Faustus is a...
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- 3 Hero and author Resource
- What, if anything, does Doctor Faustus tell us about its notorious author? Having read the play, do you feel that it supports or invalidates the dominant view of Marlowe as the bad boy of Elizabethan drama?...
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