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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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Since leaving the show, he has appeared in a West End production of Doctor Faustus, as well as films like Pompeii and Testament of Youth.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2019

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

From Slate • May 15, 2017

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

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