by Christopher Marlowe · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781474295178
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Doctor Faustus is a play by English playwright Christopher Marlowe, based on the German legend of Faust. The play tells the story of a scholar who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for unlimited knowledge and power. Through poetic language and complex characters, Marlowe explores themes such as ambition, sin, and redemption. This edition from Methuen Drama presents the complete text of the play, along with notes and commentary that help to understand the historical and literary context of the work.
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe, was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights. Based upon the "many imitations" of his play Tamburlaine, modern scholars consider him to have been the foremost dramatist in London in the years just before his mysterious early death. Some scholars also believe that he greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was baptised in the same year as Marlowe and later succeeded him as the preeminent Elizabethan playwright. Marlowe was the first to achieve critical reputation for his use of blank verse, which became the standard for the era. His plays are distinguished by their overreaching protagonists. Themes found within Marlowe's literary works have been noted as humanistic with realistic emotions, which some scholars find difficult to reconcile with Marlowe's "anti-intellectualism" and his catering to the prurient tastes of his Elizabethan audiences for generous displays of extreme physical violence, cruelty, and bloodshed.
