Dr. Faustus

Dr. Faustus

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Publisher's Synopsis

In this foundational classic play, Christopher Marlowe beautifully retells the legend of Doctor Faustus in a masterful combination of verse and prose. The celebrated moral of the play is about how excessive ambition and unlimited lust for knowledge and power lead to self-destruction and damnation. The protagonist in the story is a talented lower-class man who is obsessed with the study of sciences and the secrets of life. His excessive academic ambition and his reliance solely on logic and reason lead him to cogitate about the nature of the world and its existence and to question the utility of the "doctrine of Divinity." Unsatisfied with the knowledge that pure and experimental sciences can offer, he eventually decides to explore the curious world of Black Magic.

Book information

ISBN: 9798664532289
Publisher: Independently Published
Imprint: Independently Published
Pub date:
DEWEY: 822.3
Language: English
Number of pages: 72
Weight: 118g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 4mm