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Hace 6 días · In Doctor Faustus, the greatest tragedy in English before Shakespeare, Marlowe puts some of the finest poetry ever written for the stage and a good deal of anarchic comedy at the service of a mythic tale illustrating mankind's insatiable desire for knowledge and power.
28 de may. de 2024 · Works discussed include poems and plays by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and others. Essays concentrate on specific plays including The Merchant of Venice and Dido Queen of Carthage, tracing interactions between myths, chronicles, the Bible and contemporary genres.
Hace 4 días · Doctor Faustus is a play about desire: for the best in life, for knowledge, power, material comfort, and influence. Faustus sells his soul to the devil hoping to learn the secrets of the universe, but is fobbed off with explanations which he knows to be inadequate.
Hace 6 días · revised and updated Broadview edition offers the best available text of Doctor Faustus in an attractive hardcover binding. Keefer's critical introduction reconstructs the ideological contexts that shaped and deformed the play, and the text is accompanied by textual and explanatory notes and excerpts from sources
Hace 3 días · Christopher Marlowe was quite a character: A short life, a great Elizabethan talent, a belief (by some) that he wrote Shakespeare's works - and a very curious death. A multiple-choice quiz by robert362 . Estimated time: 5 mins.
Hace 2 días · Marlowe's subject matter is different from Shakespeare's as it focuses more on the moral drama of the renaissance man. His play Doctor Faustus (c. 1592), is about a scientist and magician who sells his soul to the Devil.
Hace 5 días · Lara Marlowe. Sat Jun 1 2024 - 06:00. Almost from the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, politicians, historians and commentators have questioned how the war will end. With ...
