Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus is the founding text of the Faust legend in English drama. A scholar who has mastered every branch of learning, Faustus sells his soul to Mephistopheles for twenty-four years of unlimited power and knowledge — only to fritter most of it on conjuring tricks and illusions before the clock runs out. Written around 1592, the play is both a gripping tragedy and an argument about the limits of human ambition.
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