Christopher Marlowe's classic work "Doctor Faustus" was first performed in the 1580s or early 1590s but only published in 1604, 11 years after his death. The dramatists Samuel Rowley and William ...
SYNOPSIS: Colin Teevan's scenes replace the extant middle acts (widely believed not to have been written by Marlowe), transporting ... In the play, Faustus makes a pact with the Devil, selling ...
DOCTOR FAUSTUS is considered the greatest tragedy in English before Shakespeare. Christopher Marlow places some of the greatest poetry ever written for the stage and a good deal of anarchic comedy ...
Most of us would want a little more than that. For example, Dr. Faustus — best known from dramatic masterpieces by Christopher Marlowe and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — acquired immense power ...