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.
From BBC • May 9, 2023
He pointed to detailed costume sketches for Welles’s 1937 staging of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus.
From The Guardian • Feb. 9, 2019
The Sandpiper, The Comedians, Doctor Faustus, Boom! ... this threatened to become my version of the Sunken Place.
From Slate • Jan. 4, 2018
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
I often thought of these lines of his, from Doctor Faustus:
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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