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
He pointed to detailed costume sketches for Welles’s 1937 staging of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus.
From The Guardian • Feb. 9, 2019
Comparisons are made to other large, difficult works: Infinite Jest, Gravity’s Rainbow, Doctor Faustus.
From Slate • May 15, 2017
Doctor Faustus tells the story of a man who sells his soul to the devil in return for magical powers.
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2016
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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