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Dr. Faustus
Paperback
Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Plays
Publisher Price: $4.00
ISBN13: 9780486282084
Publisher: Dover Pubn Inc
Published: Oct 20 1994
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
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.
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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