![]() ![]() Marlowe was born in Canterbury to shoemaker John Marlowe and his wife Catherine. Marlowe's plays are known for the use of blank verse and their overreaching protagonists. He greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was born in the same year as Marlowe. ![]() He was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day. Doctor Faustus was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe’s death and at least twelve years after the first performance of the play.Ĭhristopher Marlowe was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. On a deeper level, this play shows the decay of a person who chooses material gains (by commanding the devils to suit his desires) over spiritual belief and in doing so loses his soul. ![]() The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is based on the Faust story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge. Two different versions of the play were published in the Jacobean era, several years later. The Tragicall 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, that was written sometime between 15, and might have been performed between 1592 and Marlowe's death in 1593. ![]()
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