Doctor Faustus
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Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus has moments of genius but thoroughly derails itself in the middle, primarily because Faustus doesn’t really do anything of note with his powers.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 11, 2019
Comparisons are made to other large, difficult works: Infinite Jest, Gravity’s Rainbow, Doctor Faustus.
From Slate ● May 15, 2017
In the summer, producer Richard Jordan claimed his trip to see Doctor Faustus was marred by "possibly the worst West End audience I have ever encountered".
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2016
The production’s central problem remains Mr. Noth’s inability to invest his Doctor Faustus with palpable inner life.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2015
Both Goethe’s play and Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus of 1604 seem to have drawn inspiration from an actual alchemist, Johann Georg Faust, who lived in early-sixteenth-century Germany.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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