false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166958361m/18525.jpg 18525 86 <div><div>One of the glories of Elizabethan drama: Marlowe's powerful retelling of the story of the learned German doctor who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. Footnotes.</div></div> 756664 1604 Dr. Faustus (Dover Thrift Editions) total:2380|5:534|4:851|3:746|2:211|1:38| 2380 8772 3123 134 18525 0486282082 9780486282084 1801 78 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166958361m/18525.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18525.Dr_Faustus 3 1 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Tue Apr 14 17:26:23 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 00:21:24 -0700 2009
...more...]]> 18525 0486282082 9780486282084 1801 78 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166958361m/18525.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18525.Dr_Faustus 4 0 true Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 15:27:55 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 00:13:32 -0700 2009 Tragic Gretchen, Tragic Faust
Why “The Gretchen Tragedy” isn’t…and how Geothe’s Faust fails as a Faustian.
We are told that tragedy and tragic are not interchangeable words. Indeed, the New Oxford American Dictionary—after first listing the patent definition of “an event caus...more...]]> 480080 0451524772 9780451524775 34 4 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175109873m/480080.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/480080.Doctor_Faustus 2 0 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 12 08:43:29 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 08:46:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 18525 0486282082 9780486282084 1801 78 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166958361m/18525.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18525.Dr_Faustus 4 0 false Thu Mar 12 14:37:31 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 14:42:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 18525 0486282082 9780486282084 1801 78 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166958361m/18525.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18525.Dr_Faustus 3 0 false Fri Jan 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 11:10:16 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 11:17:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 18525 0486282082 9780486282084 1801 78 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166958361m/18525.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18525.Dr_Faustus 4 0 false Fri Dec 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 05:02:30 -0800 2008 Sun Aug 23 11:13:42 -0700 2009 2
A hilarious reworking of the German legend about a man who sells his soul to the devil, adapted by Martin Jenkins and dramatised by Jonathan Holloway.

Cast:
Mephistopheles ...... Mark Gatiss
Faustus ...... Julian Rhind-Tut...more...]]> 18525 0486282082 9780486282084 1801 78 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166958361m/18525.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18525.Dr_Faustus 4 0 false Thu Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 11:08:48 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 21:28:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 18525 0486282082 9780486282084 1801 78 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166958361m/18525.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18525.Dr_Faustus 5 0 false Fri Nov 09 13:24:20 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 05 00:04:00 -0800 2007 more...]]> 631211 0451527798 9780451527790 205 17 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176500243m/631211.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/631211.Doctor_Faustus 4 0 false Wed Aug 08 13:41:50 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 13 09:25:41 -0700 2007
For me, _Dr. Faustus_ (1592) resonated with _Paradise Lost_ (1667) quite a bit, particularly in t...more...]]> 80897 0719016436 9780719016431 51 5 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170991587m/80897.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80897.Doctor_Faustus 3 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Feb 24 12:11:12 -0800 2007 Sat Feb 24 12:22:20 -0800 2007
Marlowe is the warmup act for Shakespeare; he may have broken new ground but it was Shakespeare who mastered the territory. Faustus parti...more...]]> 18525 0486282082 9780486282084 1801 78 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166958361m/18525.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18525.Dr_Faustus 0 0 false Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Tue Dec 16 11:38:48 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 11:45:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 80897 0719016436 9780719016431 51 5 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170991587m/80897.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80897.Doctor_Faustus 3 0 false Fri Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 08:07:56 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 08:19:55 -0700 2008
I'd never read Marlowe, but this was pretty much what I had expected. I had to laugh when I read the scene ...more...]]> 18525 0486282082 9780486282084 1801 78 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166958361m/18525.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18525.Dr_Faustus 3 0 false Fri Dec 19 18:31:12 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 18:35:07 -0800 2008 more...]]> 770608 0671457454 9780671457457 8 2 3.69 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/770608.Tragedy_of_Doctor_Faustus_the 3 0 false Thu May 15 12:26:40 -0700 2008 Thu May 15 12:26:52 -0700 2008 AA100. I’m considering doing the course in 2009 and am getting a head start through <a href=”http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/home.php?ONBAN=OS001&MEDIA=openlearn”>OpenLearn</a>.

I’m not a fan of Ye Olde English but I was pleasantly surp...more...]]> 18525 0486282082 9780486282084 1801 78 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166958361m/18525.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18525.Dr_Faustus 1 0 false Wed Feb 11 23:45:11 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 23:46:41 -0800 2009 more...]]> 18525 0486282082 9780486282084 1801 78 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166958361m/18525.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18525.Dr_Faustus 3 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Sat Jan 17 16:33:44 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 16:38:41 -0800 2009 Shakespeare in Love and the scene when all the actors perform the lines about the face that launched a thousand ships.
Marlowe does have some nice lines in this play, but overall I'm not that impres...more...]]> 2343852 1604246049 9781604246049 21 5 3.69 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2343852.The_Tragical_History_of_Dr_Faustus 4 0 false Sat Mar 15 18:07:04 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 21 22:31:46 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 15 18:06:26 -0700 2008 Dr. Faustus is really cool and a pretty quick read. A contemporary of Shakespeare, some say that had Christopher Marlowe lived longer he would have surpassed Shakespeare. I don't know if I believe that, but he's an important guy of the period and readers should give him some attention. Dr. Faust...more...]]> 631211 0451527798 9780451527790 205 17 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176500243m/631211.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/631211.Doctor_Faustus 5 0 false Thu Jan 24 14:14:44 -0800 2008 Tue Oct 02 13:36:22 -0700 2007 Thu Jan 24 14:14:30 -0800 2008 Doctor Faustus intriguing, if not downright moving. In its first act it hits notes on the combative application of logic, selfish shaping of theology and corruption by power. This is almost as interpretable as you would...more...]]> 3027951 0582817803 9780582817807 5 2 3.69 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3027951.Doctor_Faustus 5 0 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 13:08:12 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 11:11:13 -0800 2009
I did not find the language of the play to be difficult as I had feared. I am used to seeing Shakespearian plays using their original l...more...]]> 18525 0486282082 9780486282084 1801 78 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166958361m/18525.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18525.Dr_Faustus 2 0 false Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 04 06:14:14 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 08:40:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=18525