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Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus
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The first tragedian worthy of the tradition of the Greeks was Christopher Marlowe (1564–93). Of Marlowe's tragedies, Tamburlaine (1587), Doctor Faustus (c. 1588), The Jew of Malta (1589), and Edward II (c. 1593), the first two are the most famous and most significant.
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Marlowe's plays were enormously successful, thanks in part, no doubt, to the imposing stage presence of Edward Alleyn. He was unusually tall for the time, and the haughty roles of Tamburlaine, Faustus, and Barabas were probably written especially for him. Marlowe's plays were the foundation of the repertoire of Alleyn's company, the Admiral's Men, throughout the 1590s.
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Doctor Faustus, which is generally considered Marlowe's greatest work, was probably ... his last. Its central figure, a scholar who feels he has exhausted all the conventional areas of human learning, attempts to gain the ultimate in knowledge and power by selling his soul to the devil. The high point comes in the portrayal of the hero's final moments, as he awaits the powers of darkness who demand his soul.
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Like many of Shakespeare’s plays, Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus has been scrutinized for its authorship. Two different versions of the work were published over a decade apart, and many believe that another author (or authors) added many of the comic scenes that make up the middle of the play.
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