![]() ![]() Goethe was aware of Marlowe’s play and greatly admired its composition, but he apparently had not read it by the time he completed Faust I. Despite its unevenness, Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus became a staple of Elizabethan theater and a canonical text of the Western tradition. This has often been cited as evidence for the inherent modernism of the text. ![]() In terms of its composition, however, the text uses dialogue and monologue in ways that are uncharacteristic for the time. In a play known as The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, written by Christopher Marlowe in the late fifteen-hundreds, is about a German Scholar who has. the pairing of good and evil angels who address the protagonist-and shares with the popular dramas of its age the tendency to juxtapose the ridiculous and the serious. Marlowe’s text also adopts traditional elements of the morality play-e.g. He incorporated some of the more farcical scenes from this source, and at times quotes from it verbatim. His source for the theme was a translation of the German Historia, titled Historie of the damnable Life, and deserved Death of Doctor Iohn Faustus (1592). 1592) is believed to be the first dramatization of the (Germanic) Faust legend. ![]()
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