Doctor Faustus
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Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe’s classic drama about a scholar who makes a deal with the devil.
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2019
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
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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