Il Dottor Faust racconta la drammatica vicenda di un giovane uomo con brame di onnipotenza, che desidera a tutti i costi, al punto di stipulare un patto di sangue con il demonio, al quale vende la sua anima in cambio di 24 anni di potere illimitato. In questo famosissimo dramma di Christopher Marlowe si alternano autentici momenti di terrore, ad altri goliardici, fino a punto di essere comici. La vicenda tuttavia si conclude tragicamente, con la morte e la dannazione eterna di Faust. Un eb...

This book-collection file includes: Dido, Doctor Faustus, Edward the Second, The Jew of Malta, Massacre at Paris, Tamburlaine the Great Part 1, and Tamburlaine the Great Part 2. According to Wikipedia: "Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost Elizabethan tragedian next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his magnificent blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his own mys...

Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and detailed life of Marlowe since John Bakeless's in 1942. It has new material on Marlowe in relation to Canterbury, also on his home life, schooling, and six and a half years at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and includes fresh data on his reading, teachers, and early achievements, including a new letter with a new date for the famous 'putative portrait' of Marlowe at Cambridge. The biography uses for the first time the La...

The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 2 is a compilation of several important plays and poems by the renowned Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe. This volume includes Marlowe's exploration of grand historical and mythological themes, such as Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta, and other dramatic works that emphasize the conflict between human ambition, morality, and fate.In these works, Marlowe examines complex characters driven by intense desires, often leading to their downfall. D...

La obra trata la historia de Fausto, doctor en teología, que en su búsqueda del conocimiento decide vender su alma al Diablo para conseguir los favores de uno de sus siervos, el demonio Mefistófeles. Consta de un prólogo, trece escenas y un epílogo

The great Elizabethan tragedy based on the classic German legend of worldly ambition, black magic, and surrender to the devil.Christopher Marlowe’s dramatic interpretation of the Faust legend remains one of the most famous plays of the English Renaissance. It tells the tragic tale of Dr. John Faustus, a brilliant but dissatisfied scholar who conjures the demon Mephistopheles in pursuit of limitless knowledge and power. Through this satanic messenger, Doctor Faustus makes a pact wit...

In this foundational classic play, Christopher Marlowe beautifully retells the legend of Doctor Faustus in a masterful combination of verse and prose. The celebrated moral of the play is about how excessive ambition and unlimited lust for knowledge and power lead to self-destruction and damnation. The protagonist in the story is a talented lower-class man who is obsessed with the study of sciences and the secrets of life. His excessive academic ambition and his reliance solely on logic and re...

También conocida como La matanza de París, esta pieza dramática de Christopher Marlowe trata de la llamada Matanza o Noche de San Bartolomé, asesinato en masa de millares de hugonotes (protestantes franceses) por parte del bando católico, iniciada el 24 de agosto de 1572 en París

The series includes: 1 The Wizard of Oz, 2 The Land of Oz, 3 Ozma of Oz, 4 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, 5 The Road to Oz, 6 The Emerald City of Oz, 7 The Patchwork Girl of Oz, 8 Tik-Tok of Oz, 9 The Scarecrow of Oz, 10 Rinkitink in Oz, 11 The Lost Princess of Oz, 12 The Tin Woodman of Oz, 13 The Magic of Oz, and 14 Glinda of Oz. According to Wikipedia: "Lyman Frank Baum (1856 1919) was an American author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker, best known today as the creator, ...

Christopher Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus' is a seminal work of Elizabethan literature, written in blank verse and exploring themes of ambition, power, and the consequences of making a pact with the devil. The play's literary context is rooted in the Renaissance humanism of the late 16th century, with Marlowe drawing upon classical myths and Christian theology to craft a cautionary tale about the dangers of unchecked ambition. The use of soliloquies and dramatic irony adds depth to the charact...

Historia, ambición y erotismo en estas obras de un autor imprescindible de la literatura universal.Traducción de Aliocha Coll, Andrés Ehrenhaus y Andreu JaumeIntroducción de Andreu Jaume, editor y crítico literarioNacido en el mismo año que Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe es uno de los dramaturgos más importantes de la literatura universal. Vivió en Londres e inventó el teatro inglés: sin lugar a dudas, fue el escr...

Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus's encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas in THE JEW OF MALTA, and the humiliation of Edward II in his fall from power and influence, Marlowe explores the shifting balance between power and helplessness, the sacred and its desecration.