Doctor Faustus | Benvolio, Frederick, and Martino
When Faustus arrives at the court of Emperor Charles V to display his magic, Benvolio, a knight, seems too hungover to witness the performance. When the Emperor requests that Faustus conjure up Alexander the Great and his paramour, Benvolio is skeptical of the magician's power and insists that if Faustus can bring back Alexander, he will become the mythological character Actaeon and turn into a stag. After Alexander appears, Faustus grows horns on Benvolio's head, which the Emperor, pleading leniency, asks Faustus to remove.
Humiliated by these horns, Benvolio plans revenge...
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