UNDERSTANDING MARLOWE:

Doctor Faustus

Robert A. Albano

MERCURYE PRESS

Los Angeles

UNDERSTANDING MARLOWE:

Doctor Faustus

Robert A. Albano

First Printing: August 2016

“The Earl of Nottingham's Men and the A Text of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus” first appeared in The Marlowe Society Research Journal (September 2005).

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MERCURYE PRESS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

7 Christopher Marlowe

9       Background on the Play

12 Two Versions of Marlowe’s Play

13 The Prologue

17       The Opening Soliloquy

22       The Depiction of the Devils

28       The Three Hells

33       The Theme of Magic

37       Magic and Lust

40       Magic and Knowledge

42       The Pageant of the Seven Deadly Sins

44       Magical and Practical Jokes

49       The Theme of Free Will

54       The Theme of Being a God

56 The Scholars and the Chorus

58 The Comic Scenes

60 The Closing Soliloquy

 

61 Final Comments

63 “The Earl of Nottingham's Men and the

A Text of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus”

(an essay)

      

81       Historia von D. Johann Fausten

(the German chapbook of 1587)