Doctor Faustus

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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For those in his “village of readers” who can’t make it to the shop, Carl makes house calls, strolling the city each night to visit “Mr. Darcy,” “Doctor Faustus” and others he has nicknamed after literary characters.

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Originally a German legend, the story became more popularized thanks to Christopher Marlow's "Doctor Faustus" in which the titular doctor signs a contract with the demon Mephistopheles, a servant of Lucifer's, to extend his life so he can learn more about magic.

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My first bookstore was the long-ago vanquished Pickwick Books on Hollywood Boulevard, the same locale where a young Susan Sontag was caught shoplifting a copy of “Doctor Faustus.”

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A star of the screen and stage, Hardiman appeared as Mephistophilis in Doctor Faustus at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, in 1968.

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Its enthralling final poem, a tour de force called “The Underworld,” describes an actual hell-bound train — “going nowhere but going very fast” — with echoes of ancient mythology, Dante, Marlowe’s “Doctor Faustus” and Yeats’s “The Second Coming.”

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