Doctor Faustus (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Christopher Marlowe
- First Published: 1604
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: Sixteenth century
- Setting: Germany
- Principal Characters: Faustus, Wagner, Lucifer, Mephostopilis, Good Angel, Evil Angel
- Genres: Drama, Tragedy
- Subjects: Immortality, Sin or Original sin, Doctors, Poetry or poets, Faustian bargains, Symbolism, Sixteenth century, Devils or demons, Germany or German people, Comedy, Theology, Satan or Satanism
- Locales: Germany
The Story:
Faustus had been born to a common family in Rhodes, Germany. In his maturity, while living with some relatives in Wittenberg, he studied theology and was called a doctor. However, Faustus was so swollen with conceit that, Daedalus-like, he strove too far, became glutted with learning, conspired with the devil, and finally fell, accursed.
At the outset of his downward path Doctor Faustus found himself complete master of the fields of knowledge that men at that time studied. As a medical doctor he had already achieved huge success and great renown. After...
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