Christopher Marlowe

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.

Dr. Faustus

An updated and accessible edition of this classic and popular play.

Doctor Faustus

Vanya de Lang 

An interesting story about the most basic of human desires. A play about truth, lies, desire and doubt. Dubbel crossing the devil? Never will you succeed. Right?

Varda

"for all the knowledge he has gained, for all the years he has spent
plunged Into the vast seas of philosophy, he still finds
himself ignorant, insignificant and unsatisfied."

laila

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

megan

faustus is hilarious, i can’t really blame him for using his powers to mess with people it was funny

zilver 

ngl this was really fun (& thinking about costa mcclure saying "it's VERY intense, VERY homo-erotic" in lolilo made it even more fun) 

a list of fun times with faustus: (lowkey spoilers below)
• when faustus conjures up a devil and immediately sends him away because the devil is too ugly 
• faustus contemplating how one words the handing over of one's soul to the devil 
• when he asks mephastophiles where hell is and just. does not believe anything he says. 
• mephastophiles: but faustus. i'm literally a devil from hell.
 faustus: sounds fake but ok 
• faustus asking for a wife and mephastopheles being a troll giving him another devil dressed up as a woman instead
• faustus being a suck up ("sweet mephastophiles") and mephastophiles not giving a single shit
• faustus: you look ugly 
lucifer: this bitch ,,, 
faustus: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 
• faustus literally telling gluttony to choke 
• "the first letter of my name begins with lechery" 
• lechery is that kid that's like "the word i'm thinking of starts with sl and ends with eep" 
• all the devils keep saying "tut"
• robin: i have stolen this book and now i will read its magic words
 rafe: you actually can't read idiot
• faustus using his invisibility to snatch pieces of meat away from the pope
• when i misread a word and thought one of the lines was "great potatoes do kneel with awful fear"
• robin and rafe totally digging the fact that they're going to be turned into an ape and a dog respectively 
• faustus and mephastophiles pulling a prank on a random guy making it seem as if the guy literally pulls faustus leg off 
• faustus: i sold my soul to the devil
 his buddies: god forbid!! 
 faustus: ..... yeah he did

Liam Holbrook

Christoper Marlowe

Doctor Faustus is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe based on German stories about the title character Faust, that was first performed sometime between 1588 and Marlowe's death in 1593.

Dr. Faustus

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