![]() ![]() Doctor Faustus was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe's death and at least twelve years after the first performance of the play. Mephistophilis then threatens Faustus for disobedience to Lucifer, and Faustus agrees to reaffirm his contract to the devil in blood again. ![]() The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, normally known simply as Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge. The earliest edition, first published in 1604 and referred to by scholars as the. Faustus fears that hell has him trapped but asks the old man to leave him alone for a while and he ponders his sins. Therefore the shortest cut for conjuring / Is stoutly to abjure all godliness, / And pray devoutly to the prince of hell. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus I charge thee to return, and change thy shape / Thou art too ugly to attend on me: / Go, and return an old Franciscan friar / That holy shape becomes a devil best. ![]()
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