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Doctor Faustus

American  

noun

  1. (The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus ) a play (c1588) by Christopher Marlowe, based on the medieval legend of Faust.


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Comparisons are made to other large, difficult works: Infinite Jest, Gravity’s Rainbow, Doctor Faustus.

From Slate • May 15, 2017

Game of Thrones star Kit Harington is learning the art of stage illusion for his new West End role in Doctor Faustus.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2016

But certain brilliant things are also quite accessible: Barthes’s essay “Loving Schumann”, the passages on music in Milan Kundera, or the lecture on Beethoven’s final piano sonata in Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus.

From The Guardian • Jun. 26, 2015

And after his “Hamlet” winds down, the rest won’t be silence for long: Chris Noth of “Law & Order” and “The Good Wife” fame is coming in to play Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus.

From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2015

I often thought of these lines of his, from Doctor Faustus:

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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