One of the glories of Elizabethan drama: Marlowe's powerful retelling of the story of the learned German doctor who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. Footnotes.
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Absolutely terrifying, not one to read late at night.
Dr Faustus is the embodiment of "curiosity killed the cat" desiring more than philosophy a... (show more)
Absolutely terrifying, not one to read late at night.
Dr Faustus is the embodiment of "curiosity killed the cat" desiring more than philosophy and religion he stumbles into witchcraft lustily. He seems to revel in the filth of it all. The curious threeway relationship between Lucifer, Dr Faustus and his familiar Mephistopheles, flittering between fear, disgust and love, was especially intriguing.
Though what I loved most about this is the sililoques where Faustus is wrestling with his soul. The way he juggles knowing what he is doing is wrong, the pleasure witchcraft brings to him and fear of Lucifer's wrath if he breaks his oath makes for wonderful reading. (show less)
I needed every line of every page translated to present day language, but everything I learned were things that made me think about life.
Not nearly as god as his contemporary Shakespeare. I went into this intrigued by the idea of the plot, but was ultimately disapointed by the lack of characterization and randomness of it all. Many scenes lasted only a few pages and the characters contained within were never heard from again. Faustus is so utterly morally contemptuous and repugnant that I had no wish to see him saved, albeit to see the devil lose. It seemed awkward that no one was disturbed by his magic, nor did the seem to mi... (show more)
Not nearly as god as his contemporary Shakespeare. I went into this intrigued by the idea of the plot, but was ultimately disapointed by the lack of characterization and randomness of it all. Many scenes lasted only a few pages and the characters contained within were never heard from again. Faustus is so utterly morally contemptuous and repugnant that I had no wish to see him saved, albeit to see the devil lose. It seemed awkward that no one was disturbed by his magic, nor did the seem to mind his evil spirit that carried out his deeds. All in all I struggled to wade through this moral parable and found its message to be grounded in faith, but less effective than it could have been were the writing better. (show less)
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Marlowe's doctor is a much more playful, intriguing, witty figure than Goethe's whining Faust. A fact which is not so surprising when one takes into consideration that Marlowe spent his time drinking and gambling at the village inn and got murdered at 29 over a street row while Goethe was tutored by private teachers on Latin, Greek, French, English, dancing, riding and fencing.
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