Faustus
Americannoun
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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
In the summer, producer Richard Jordan claimed his trip to see Doctor Faustus was marred by "possibly the worst West End audience I have ever encountered".
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 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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