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Dr. Faustus

Dr. Faustus. Christopher Marlowe. http://www.zwoje-scrolls.com/zwoje38/cz09.jpg. Background: from morality play to tragedy Marlowe Comparison with Everyman Definitions Faustus Sources of Faustus The play as a morality play The play as a tragedy Functions of the comic scenes

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Dr. Faustus

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  1. Dr. Faustus • Christopher Marlowe

  2. http://www.zwoje-scrolls.com/zwoje38/cz09.jpg

  3. Background: from morality play to tragedy • Marlowe • Comparison with Everyman • Definitions • Faustus • Sources of Faustus • The play as a morality play • The play as a tragedy • Functions of the comic scenes • Treatment of knowledge • Faustus’s Final Night

  4. Background: from morality play to tragedy • Faustus as projection of Marlowe's own "radical skepticism"?

  5. Marlowe: • "That all they that love not Tobacco & Boies were fooles" http://marlowe.thefreelibrary.com/

  6. Marlowe House http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/house.htm

  7. Comparison with Everyman: • staging; metre; protagonist; treatment of knowledge; cycle of sin and repentance

  8. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/ftfstpost.jpg

  9. Stylised figure http://www.faust-goetheanum.ch/typo3temp/pics/4426ce9f0b.jpg

  10. Faust and Mephistopheles http://cc.ysu.edu/~wrschill/Costume%20Design.htm

  11. The descent into hell http://cc.ysu.edu/~wrschill/Costume%20Design.htm

  12. Definitions: • Renaissance: rebirth; the revival of art and learning following classical models (Europe, 14th–17thc) • Humanism: Protagoras: "Man is the measure of all things” • Psychomachia: the externalization of the internal battle between good and evil over the fate of the soul

  13. Treatment of knowledge • The Imaginative Role of Classicism • The role of books • Empiricism/Humanism http://www.sensesofcinema.com/images/28/cteq/faust.jpg

  14. Selected literary works based on the Faust legend: • Anonymous. Historia von D. Johann Fausten (Frankfurt am Main: Johann Spies, 1587). • Christopher Marlowe. The Tragicall History of D. Faustus (1604). • Gotthold Lessing. Faust (fragment, 1784). • Friedrich Maximilian Klinger. Fausts Leben, Taten und Höllenfahrt (1791). • Adalbert von Chamisso. Faust: Ein Versuch (1804); Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (1813). • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Faust: Eine Tragödie (Erster Teil, 1808; Zweiter Teil , completed 1831, published 1833). • Christian Dietrich Grabbe. Don Juan und Faust (1829). • Nikolaus Lenau. Faust: Ein Gedicht (1836) • Woldemar Nürnberger. Josephus Faust (1847) • Heinrich Heine. Doktor Faust: Ein Tanzpoem, nebst kuriosen Berichten über Teufel, Hexen und Dichtkunst (1851). • Paul Valéry. Mon Faust (1946). • Thomas Mann. Doktor Faustus (1950).

  15. Selected musical works based on the Faust legend: • Hector Berlioz. The Damnation of Faust (1846), a dramatic cantata based on a French version of Goethe's work by Gerard de Nerval. This composition is also staged as an opera. • Charles Gounod. Faust (1859), an opera based on part one of Goethe's work. Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré. • Franz Liszt. A Faust Symphony (1854, revised 1857-1861).

  16. Films: • There are 23 titles on the Internet Movie Database <imdb.com>

  17. http://www.phillipjohnston.com/faust.jpg

  18. Faustus with puppets http://www.puppets.inuk.com/rep.htm

  19. Discussion questions: • 1. For What Does Faustus Sell his Soul—Ultimate Knowledge or Party Tricks? • 2. Does Mephistopheles tempt Faustus? Or does he damn himself? • 3. To what degree are the fantasies & desires that Faustus articulates—his fantasies & desires of the expansion of human scope & power & imagination—ultimately purged or contained by the play's ending? • 4. What are the implications of the fact that the damned hero gets all the best lines?

  20. When all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven. Faustus.

  21. The Grafton Portrait of Chistopher Marlowe. http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/iacd_2000S/intro_lit/LitLab/cm.gif

  22. http://www.michaelprescott.freeservers.com/ShakespeareVsShakespeare.htmhttp://www.michaelprescott.freeservers.com/ShakespeareVsShakespeare.htm

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