Faustus
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None of this is lost by having a female Faustus, although hopefully it brings into focus the way in which women are still punished for their ambition in a way men often aren’t.
From The Guardian • Dec. 11, 2019
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
Comparisons are made to other large, difficult works: Infinite Jest, Gravity’s Rainbow, Doctor Faustus.
From Slate • May 15, 2017
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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