Scholar R.M. Dawkins once called Faustus “a Renaissance man who had to pay the medieval price for being one.” Doctor Faustus has frequently been interpreted as depicting a clash between the values of the medieval world and the emerging spirit of the sixteenth-century Renaissance. In medieval Europe, Christianity and GodContinue Reading
Dr. Faustus the protagonist of Christopher Marlowe’s great tragedy can be considered as a tragic hero similar to the other tragic characters such as Oedipus or Hamlet. Dr. Faustus who sells his soul to Lucifer in exchange of twenty four years of knowledge ought to have some special features inContinue Reading
A dramatic descendant of mystery and miracle plays of the medieval period, a morality play’s purpose was to allegorically point out good and evil, and the dangers mankind faced in participating in sinful behaviors, and to highlight the cost of pursuing such immoral actions. The morality play, a medieval poeticContinue Reading
In tragedies, the playwright tries to give relief to tension in the mind of the audience by introducing comic scenes or episodes. The audience of the Elizabethan period pressed for such comic interludes. The producers also demanded them for success of the play. The comic interlude may have an appropriateContinue Reading
Marlowe based Doctor Faustus on the early sixteenth century German doctor Johann Faust, a practitioner of magic, who was thought to have sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for knowledge and magical power. Marlowe dramatizes tales that gathered around Faustus’s name, those typically involving the conflict between humanContinue Reading
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