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)
Vald. | Val.
Words
155
Characters
906
Typicality
0.45 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A07009
BritDrama no.
810
Cluster
Cluster 2 — Allegory, Nature & pageant voices
Important excerpts
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Full speech
Faustus these books thy wit and our experience Shall make all nations to cononize us, As Indian Moors obey their Spanish Lords, So shall the subjects of every element Be always serviceable to us three, Like Lyons shall they guard us when we please, Like Almain Rutters with their horsemen's staves, Or Lapland Giants trotting by our sides, Sometime Like women, or unwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows, Then in their white breasts of the queen of Love: For Venice shall they dreg huge Argoces, And from America the golden fleece, That yearly nffes old Philips treasury If learned Faustus will be resolute. Then haste Thee to some solitary grove, And bear wise Bacons and Albanus works, The H brew Psalter, and new Testament, And whatsoever else is requisite We will inform Thee ere our conference cease. First I'll instruct thee in the rudiments, And then wilt thou be perfecter then I.
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…