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Discussions of Christopher Marlowe’s “The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus”

Pentheus, Pwyll and Pan Twardowski: Fairly Faustian 0 (0)

(Marguerite’s garden in Gounod’s “Faust,” set design by Édouard Desplechin. (1859)) Christopher Marlowe based his “Dr. Faustus” on Germany’s Faust legend, which was in turn inspired by Johann Georg Faust’s reputation. And on J. G. Faust’s abrupt death in 1520, … Continue reading

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