Doctor Faustus
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This would be the first evidence that the author of Doctor Faustus, about a man who sells his soul to the devil, wrote comedy.
From The Guardian • Apr. 14, 2020
Comparisons are made to other large, difficult works: Infinite Jest, Gravity’s Rainbow, Doctor Faustus.
From Slate • May 15, 2017
And after his “Hamlet” winds down, the rest won’t be silence for long: Chris Noth of “Law & Order” and “The Good Wife” fame is coming in to play Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus.
From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2015
Doctor Faustus New adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s 16th century satire about a man who sells his soul to the devil; may not be suitable for younger viewers.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2014
Both Goethe’s play and Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus of 1604 seem to have drawn inspiration from an actual alchemist, Johann Georg Faust, who lived in early-sixteenth-century Germany.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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