Cliffsnotes On Marlowe S Doctor Faustus

Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781722524807

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Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Pdf

Dr. Faustus is a great Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlow originally published in 1600. The story is based on an earlier anonymous classic German legend involving worldly ambition, black magic and surrender to the devil. It remains one of the most famous plays of the English Renaissance. Dr. John Faustus, a brilliant, well-respected German doctor grows dissatisfied with the limits of human knowledge - logic, medicine, law, and religion, and decides that he has learned all that can be learned by conventional means. What is left for him, he thinks, but magic. His friends instruct him in the black arts, and he begins his new career as a magician by summoning up Mephastophilis, a devil. Despite Mephastophilis’s warnings about the horrors of hell, Faustus tells the devil to return to his master, Lucifer, with an offer of Faustus’s soul in exchange for twenty-four years of service from Mephastophilis. On the final night before the expiration of the twenty-four years, Faustus is overcome by fear and remorse. He begs for mercy, but it is too late. At midnight, a host of devils appears and carries his soul off to hell. Marlowe’s dramatic interpretation of the Faust legend is a theatrical masterpiece. With immense poetic skill, and psychological insight that greatly influenced the works of William Shakespeare and other dramatists, Dr. Faustus combines soaring poetry, psychological depth, and grand stage spectacle. Marlowe created powerful scenes that invest the work with tragic dignity, among them the doomed man’s calling upon Christ to save him and his ultimate rejection of salvation for the embrace of Helen of Troy.

Author : Eva Fitzwater
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780544181267

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CliffsNotes on Marlowe's Doctor Faustus by Eva Fitzwater Pdf

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Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1543146430

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The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Pdf

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as 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. Two different versions of the play were published in the Jacobean era, several years later.The powerful effect of early productions of the play is indicated by the legends that quickly accrued around them-that actual devils once appeared on the stage during a performance, "to the great amazement of both the actors and spectators", a sight that was said to have driven some spectators mad.

Author : Eva Fitzwater
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822004062

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Doctor Faustus by Eva Fitzwater Pdf

While the legend of Faustus has been around in some form or another since the New Testament, Marlowe's drama is the first to give it a place in the pantheon of Western literature. The famous deal Faustus makes with the Devil is a theme repeated since time immemorial and continues to provide a meaningful moral lesson.

Author : Eva Fitzwater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1052685790

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Doctor Faustus by Eva Fitzwater Pdf

Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1592
Category : English drama
ISBN : UCI:31970004468044

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Tamburlaine the Great by Christopher Marlowe Pdf

Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770481206

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Edward the Second by Christopher Marlowe Pdf

Depicting with shocking openness the sexual and political violence of its central characters’ fates, Edward the Second broke new dramatic ground in English theatre. The play charts the tragic rise and fall of the medieval English monarch Edward the Second, his favourite Piers Gaveston, and their ambitious opponents Queen Isabella and Mortimer Jr., and is an important cultural, as well as dramatic, document of the early modern period. This modernized and fully annotated Broadview Edition is prefaced by a critical but student-oriented introduction and followed by ample appendix material, including extended selections from Marlowe’s historical sources, texts bearing on the play’s complex sexual and political dynamics, and excerpts from contemporary poet Michael Drayton’s epic rendition of Edward the Second’s reign.

Author : Christopher Marlowe,George Chapman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433006058238

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Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe,George Chapman Pdf

Author : Eva Fitzwater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:848451241

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Doctor Faustus by Eva Fitzwater Pdf

Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781770483033

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The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe Pdf

First performed by Shakespeare’s rivals in the 1590s, Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta was a trend-setting, innovative play whose black comedy and final tragic irony illuminate the darker regions of the Elizabethan cultural imagination. Although Jews were banished from England in 1291, the Jew in the form of Barabas, the play’s protagonist, returns on the stage to embody and to challenge the dramatic and cultural anti-Semitic stereotypes out of which he is constructed. The result is a theatrically sophisticated but deeply unsettling play whose rich cultural significance extends beyond the early modern period to the present day. The introduction and historical documents in this edition provide a rich context for the world of the play’s composition and production, including materials on Jewishness and anti-Semitism, the political struggles over Malta, and Christopher Marlowe’s personal and political reputation.

Author : Carl Deuker
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 031606727X

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On the Devil's Court by Carl Deuker Pdf

What would you give to be your school's superstar? After reading Dr. Faustus, Joe considers the merits of selling his soul to the devil. Suddenly, he finds himself changing from a lousy basketball player and a C student to the star athlete he always dreamed he could be. Even though he isn't sure if he actually made a deal with the devil, he can't help but enjoy the benefits that come with his newfound abilities. But is achieving his dreams worth what he may have given up? In this coming of age sports novel, Joe learns the power of belief and that the only goals worth attaining are the ones that you earn -- on your own.

Author : Malcolm Lowry
Publisher : New Amer Library
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451132130

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Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry Pdf

Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. On the most fateful day of the consul's life--the Day of the Dead, 1938--his wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac, inspired by a vision of life together away from Mexico and the circumstances that have driven their relationship to the brink of collapse. She is determined to rescue Firmin and their failing marriage, but her mission is further complicated by the presence of Hugh, the consul's half brother, and Jacques, a childhood friend. The events of this one significant day unfold against an unforgettable backdrop of a Mexico at once magical and diabolical. Under the Volcano remains one of literature's most powerful and lyrical statements on the human condition, and a brilliant portrayal of one man's constant struggle against the elemental forces that threaten to destroy him.

Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134955251

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Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Pdf

In this classic and much-loved edition of Marlowe's best-known play, John D. Jump provides the reader with a wealth of introductory and explanatory material. As well as a fascinating chronology of Marlowe's life and works and extensive notes on the text, this edition includes a substantial and authoritative historical introduction to the play. An essential text whether studying the play in detail or coming to it for the first time.

Author : Mona Awad
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735241213

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All's Well by Mona Awad Pdf

“Dear Readers: This is one wild book! . . . No holds barred.” —Margaret Atwood via Twitter “Mind-blowing. Equal parts brilliant and hilarious.” —Heather O’Neill, bestselling author of The Lonely Hearts Hotel and Lullabies for Little Criminals From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny, a darkly funny novel about a theatre professor suffering chronic pain who, in the process of staging a troubled production of Shakespeare’s most maligned play, suddenly and miraculously recovers. Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating, chronic pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now she’s on the verge of losing her job as a college theatre director. Determined to put on Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, the play that promised—and cost—her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hell-bent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers. That’s when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Miranda’s past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get what’s coming to them, and the invisible, doubted pain that’s kept her from the spotlight is made known. With prose Margaret Atwood has described via Twitter as “no punches pulled, no hilarities dodged . . . genius,” Mona Awad has concocted her most potent, subversive novel yet. All’s Well is the story of a woman at her breaking point and a formidable, piercingly funny indictment of our collective refusal to witness and believe female pain.

Author : Mikhail Bulgakov
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802190512

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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Pdf

Satan comes to Soviet Moscow in this critically acclaimed translation of one of the most important and best-loved modern classics in world literature. The Master and Margarita has been captivating readers around the world ever since its first publication in 1967. Written during Stalin’s time in power but suppressed in the Soviet Union for decades, Bulgakov’s masterpiece is an ironic parable on power and its corruption, on good and evil, and on human frailty and the strength of love. In The Master and Margarita, the Devil himself pays a visit to Soviet Moscow. Accompanied by a retinue that includes the fast-talking, vodka-drinking, giant tomcat Behemoth, he sets about creating a whirlwind of chaos that soon involves the beautiful Margarita and her beloved, a distraught writer known only as the Master, and even Jesus Christ and Pontius Pilate. The Master and Margarita combines fable, fantasy, political satire, and slapstick comedy to create a wildly entertaining and unforgettable tale that is commonly considered the greatest novel to come out of the Soviet Union. It appears in this edition in a translation by Mirra Ginsburg that was judged “brilliant” by Publishers Weekly. Praise for The Master and Margarita “A wild surrealistic romp. . . . Brilliantly flamboyant and outrageous.” —Joyce Carol Oates, The Detroit News “Fine, funny, imaginative. . . . The Master and Margarita stands squarely in the great Gogolesque tradition of satiric narrative.” —Saul Maloff, Newsweek “A rich, funny, moving and bitter novel. . . . Vast and boisterous entertainment.” —The New York Times “The book is by turns hilarious, mysterious, contemplative and poignant. . . . A great work.” —Chicago Tribune “Funny, devilish, brilliant satire. . . . It’s literature of the highest order and . . . it will deliver a full measure of enjoyment and enlightenment.” —Publishers Weekly