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The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

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First published: 1604
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Marlowe's most enduring tragedy follows John Faustus, a brilliant scholar who has exhausted the conventional branches of learning and turns to black magic in pursuit of unlimited knowledge and power. He strikes a bargain with Lucifer through the demon Mephistopheles, trading his soul for twenty-four years of service. What follows swings between grand ambition and petty conjuring tricks, comedy and dread, as the clock runs down toward a damnation Faustus cannot escape. Written in the early 1590s, the play gave English drama one of its first great psychological portraits of a mind arguing itself into ruin, and its closing hour remains one of the most harrowing scenes in the language. This free PDF and EPUB edition includes the full text.

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Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), an English poet and dramatist, was the leading tragedian of his generation before Shakespeare. Educated at Cambridge, he pioneered the use of blank verse on the popular stage and wrote Tamburlaine and The Jew of Malta. He was killed in a Deptford tavern at twenty-nine.