johnnkeats:literature meme [2/8 plays]Doctor Faustus (The Tragical History of the Life and Death

johnnkeats: literature meme [2/8 plays] Doctor Faustus (The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus), Christopher Marlowe Faustus is a brilliant but embittered scholar who has exhausted the confines of human knowledge. Frustrated with the futility of his academic pursuits he is desperate for a deeper understanding of the universe. Therefore, he conjures the demon Mephistopheles and asks him to strike a deal with the Devil. Faustus gets twenty-four years of infinite knowledge and power in exchange for his soul, which will spend an eternity in hell once his time is up. -- source link

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