Faustus
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There are comic instances in Faustus and The Jew of Malta, but those are tinged with a bit of sinister darkness.
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
The Sandpiper, The Comedians, Doctor Faustus, Boom! ... this threatened to become my version of the Sunken Place.
From Slate • Jan. 4, 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
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