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Faustus

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[fou-stuhs, faw-] / ˈfaʊ stəs, ˈfɔ- /

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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

This would be the first evidence that the author of Doctor Faustus, about a man who sells his soul to the devil, wrote comedy.

From The Guardian • Apr. 14, 2020

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

Faustus Archway Theatre offers an immersive site-specific staging of Marlowe’s classic fable about a scholar who makes a deal with the devil.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2018

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