Doctor Faustus

Christopher Marlowe · c. 1592 CE · Play · English · Renaissance

A Wittenberg scholar exhausts the accepted disciplines, turns to magic, and bargains his soul for twenty-four years of power. What he buys with the time runs to conjuring tricks, court entertainments and a kiss from Helen, well short of what he paid. The first English drama of damnation chosen with open eyes.

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• ↓ Faust, Part One
  Goethe · 1808 CE · Play — reworks this
• ↓ Doctor Faustus
  Thomas Mann · 1947 CE · Novel — shares sources with this

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• Faust, Part One
  Goethe · 1808 CE · Play

  83% · 17 shared
  PlayTragedyAmbition & HubrisFaith & DoubtTemptationRedemptionMagicianShadowTragic ReversalKnowledge / TruthATU 756B — The Devil's ContractThe Oath / BargainLight & Darkvs Selfvs SupernaturalTragicMythic
• The Prodigious Magician
  Calderón de la Barca · 1637 CE · Play

  64% · 14 shared
  PlayTragedyAllegoryFaith & DoubtTemptationRedemptionRenaissanceMagicianShadowTragic ReversalThe Oath / Bargainvs Selfvs SupernaturalTragic
• Chaka
  Thomas Mofolo · 1925 CE · Novel

  45% · 10 shared
  TragedyAmbition & HubrisTemptationMagicianTragic ReversalRise–Fall (Icarus)vs Selfvs SupernaturalTragicMythic
• Paradise Lost
  John Milton · 1667 CE · Poem

  45% · 9 shared
  TragedyAmbition & HubrisTemptationTragic ReversalFireLight & Darkvs SelfTragicMythic
• Doctor Faustus
  Thomas Mann · 1947 CE · Novel

  45% · 9 shared
  TragedyAllegoryAmbition & HubrisTemptationShadowThe Oath / Bargainvs Selfvs SupernaturalTragic
• Faust
  Aleksandr Sokurov · 2011 CE · Film

  45% · 8 shared
  Ambition & HubrisFaith & DoubtTemptationMagicianShadowThe Oath / Bargainvs Selfvs Supernatural