in Doctor Faustus — Marlowe, Christopher; Anonymous (?)
Metadata
Play
Doctor Faustus
Author
Marlowe, Christopher; Anonymous (?)
Year (catalogued)
1604
First performance
1592
Decade
1600s
Genre
Tragedy
Play type
Adult Professional
Company
Unknown
Speech prefix(es)
Hors. | Hors:
Words
396
Characters
1883
Typicality
0.35 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A07009
BritDrama no.
810
Cluster
Cluster 0 — Clowns, beggars & street sellers
Important excerpts
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Full speech
Alas, alas, Doctor Fustian quoth a, mass Doctor Lopus was never such a Doctor, has given me a purgation, has purged me of forty Dollars, I shall never see them more: but yet Like and ass as I was, I would not be ruled by him, for he bade me I should ride him into no water; now, I thin king my horse had had some rare quality that he would not have had me known of, I Like a venturous youth, rid him in to the deep pond at the towns end, I was no sooner in the middle of the pond, but my horse vanished away, and I sat up on a bottle of heigh, never so near drowning in my life: but I'll seek out my Doctor, and have my forty dollars again, or I'll make it the dearest horse: Oh yonder is his snipper snapper, do you hear? you, heigh, pass, where's your master? But I will speak with him. I'll speak with him now, or I'll break his glass-windows about his ears. And he have not slept this eight weeks I'll speak with him. I, this is he, God save you master doctor, master doctor, master doctor Fustian, forty dollars, forty dollars for a bottle of heigh. So, ho, ho: so, ho, ho. No, will you not wake? I'll make you wake ere I go. Oh Lord sir, let me go, and I'll give you forty dol le more. I have none about me, come to my Oastrie and I'll give them you. I have been all this day seeking one master Fu stian: mass see where he is, God save you master doctor. Do you hear sir? I have brought you forty dol le for your horse. Alas sir, I have no more, I pray you speak for me. why sir, will he not drink of all waters? Well sir, Now am I made man for ever, I'll not leave my horse for forty: if he had but the quality of heigh ding, ding, heigh, ding, ding, Idem make a brave living on him; he has a buttock as slick as and Ele: well God buy sir, your boy will deliver him me: but har you sir, if my horse he sick, or ill at ase, if I bring his water to you y ule tell me what it is?
Plot summary
Plot — Doctor Faustus
DrFaustls is dissatisfied with the limited rewards and power offered by traditional academic disciplines, including logic, medicine, law, and divinity, and instead turns to magic. He conjures up a devil, Mephistopheles. Partly confident that this act has already damned him, and partly out of disbelief in Hell, Faustus proposes a bargain: 24 years of guaranteed life and pleasure, with Mephistopheles as his servant, in exchange for his soul. Mephistopheles secures Lucifer’s agreement, and Faustus writes out a deed of gift in his own blood; Mephistopheles distracts him from his doubts with a show of Ganeinglaevils. Faustus’ first request is for a wife, but Mephistopheles brings him a cross-dressed devil and persuades him to embrace promiscuity rather than marriage. He discourses with Mephistopheles about astronomy, but the devil refuses to answer his theological questions. When Faustus seems ready to repent, DWGifEH arrives and distracts him with a show of Hi@§S@VenuDeadly Sins. Faustus journeys into space in a chariot drawn by dragons, to study astronomy at close quarters. He next ===== PAGE 422 ===== travels to Rome, where Mephistopheles makes him invisible. At a papal banquet, he snatches the Pope’s food and boxes his ears; the clerics take him for a ghost and attempt an exorcism. RObin steals one of Faustus’ magic books and attempts to impose his will on Rafe. He conjures up Mephistopheles, who is not pleased to be summoned all the way from Constantinople, and turns Robin into an ape. Faustus becomes famous, and the Emperor invites him to demonstrate his magic at court. He is mocked bya knight, who doubts his powers. After conjuring up the spirits of Alexanderithe!Great and his paramour to -the Emperor’s satisfaction, Faustus punishes the knight by giving him horns. On his way home, he sells his horse to @j@ealér, but tells him not to ride the animal through water. The horse-dealer ignores this injunction, and the horse turns into a bundle of hay in mid-stream, so that the dealer gets a. ducking. Attempting to wake Faustus to get his money back, the dealer pulls off his leg (which alarms him more than it does Faustus). Faustus also has Mephistopheles fetch out-of-season grapes from the other side of the world to satisfy HREUDUCHESSIORAMNAIE’s pregnancy craving. Back in Wittenberg, Faustus uses his magic to show Heleniof Troy to a group of his fellow scholars. An old man persuades him to repent, but Mephistopheles restores his allegiance to Lucifer with…