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The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust. It was probably written in 1592 or 1593, shortly before Marlowe's death.
Doctor Faustus (also known as Dr. Faustus and Il Dottor Faustus) is a 1967 British horror film adaptation of the 1588 Christopher Marlowe play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus directed by Richard Burton and Nevill Coghill. [2]
Faust is reluctant, believing this will never happen. This is a significant difference between Goethe's "Faust" and Marlowe's; Faust is not the one who suggests the wager. In the first part, Mephistopheles leads Faust through experiences that culminate in a lustful relationship with Gretchen, an innocent young woman.
Sculpture of Mephistopheles bewitching the students in the scene "Auerbachs Keller" from Faust, at the entrance of what is today the restaurant Auerbachs Keller in Leipzig Anton Kaulbach: Faust and Mephisto. Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. Nearly ...
Faust, a legendary and fictional character; Johann Georg Faust (c. 1480 or 1466–c. 1541), German alchemist, astrologer, and magician; Doctor Faustus, also known as The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, a 1592 play by Christopher Marlowe; Doktor Faust, a 1925 opera by Ferruccio Busoni
Title page of one of the Höllenzwang grimoires attributed to D. Faustus Magus Maximus Kundlingensis (18th century). Georg Faustus (sometimes also Georg Sebellicus Faustus (/ ˈ f aʊ s t /; c. 1480 or 1466 – c. 1541), known in English as John Faustus, was a German itinerant alchemist, astrologer, and magician of the German Renaissance.
Goethe, like Christopher Marlowe, used the Volksbuch (folk book) to gather inspiration for his Faust. (Goethe didn't read Marlowe's Doctor Faustus until 1818, the same year he began working again on the second part of his play.) In 1831, Goethe concluded the play, adding the final scene of the fifth act.
Faustus is named after the character in Christopher Marlowe's Renaissance play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. about a man who sold his soul to Lucifer to gain infinite knowledge in exchange for 24 years of service to the devil Mephistophiles.