Doctor Faustus  By Christopher Marlowe

%... About Author

“Come live with and be my love

 And we will all the pleasures prove,

 That valleys, Groves, hills, and fields,

 Woods, or steely mountain yields.”

Christopher Marlowe was born in Canterbury in 1564. He was an actor, poet and playwright during the reign of Elizabeth – I. He was the pioneer of the Blankverse. His famous works like........

1. Tamnuriaine

2. The Jew of Malta

3. Doctor Faustus

He wrote one historical play, Edward – II, it is the first historical play of the Elizabethan age. He became involved in a tavern brawl and he was killed by one of his friends in 1593. Treason, Atheism is accused on him after his death.

%... Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus” is one of the famous plays of Christopher Marlowe. By describing Doctor Faustus’s character, he has showed that how a man like, Doctor Faustus can go beyond the reality, that means, for getting his goal, he can go to the extent by selling his soul. And this thing, indeed, shows Doctor Faustus’s excessive desire for knowledge.

 Doctor Faustus is a scholar from university of Wittenberg. He is not satisfied with his knowledge. He rejects the traditional form of “Logic, Medicine, Law and Religion.” He prefers the path of evil and practices magic. For gaining his goal, Doctor Faustus has paid in terms of own soul that he has sold to Lucifer, the ruler of the Hell. In Doctor Faustus’s nature there is an element of hubris (one common Greek form of “Hamartia”) which remains thoroughly his life. Marlowe also has showed the conflict between Medieval and Renaissance values in this play.