¿Quién es Fausto? ¿Un mistificador que especula sobre la candidez del pueblo? ¿Un titán romántico que intenta arrebatar al ciclo sus secretos? ¿El demiurgo moderno de una técnica indomable? Christopher Marlowe se reviste con la mascara de Fausto y nos da la primera gran respuesta literaria: Fausto es solamente un hombre, y un hombre condenado por su propia condicion carnal.
Not marching now in fields of Thrasymene, Where Mars did mate the Carthaginians; Nor sporting in the dalliance of love, In courts of kings where state is overturnd; Nor in the pomp of proud audacious deeds, Intends our Muse to vaunt her heavenly verse: Only this, gentlemen,we must perform The form of Faustus fortunes, good or bad: To patient judgments we appeal our plaud, And speak for Faustus in his infancy. Now is he born, his parents base of stock, In Germany, within a town calld Rhodes: Of riper years, to Wertenberg he went, Whereas his kinsmen chiefly brought him up. So soon he profits in divinity, The fruitful plot of scholarism gracd, That shortly he was gracd with doctors name, Excelling all whose sweet delight disputes In heavenly matters of theology; Till swoln with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, heavens conspird his overthrow; For, falling to a devilish exercise, And glutted now with learnings golden gifts, He surfeits upon cursed necromancy; Nothing so sweet as magic is to him, Which he prefers before his chiefest bliss: And this the man that in his study sits.
Prejudice, the intricacies of Mediterranean politics, and Machiavellian strategy abound in this masterpiece of Elizabethan theater. The eponymous character in this suspenseful drama, a prototype for Shakespeare''s Shylock, schemes desperately against Christian and Moslem hostility to cling to his wealth, his status, and his daughter.
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The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust, that was first performed sometime between 1588 and Marlowes death in 1593. The powerful effect of early productions of the play is indicated by the legends that quickly accrued around themthat actual devils once appeared on the stage during a performance, "to the great amazement of both the actors and spectators", a sight that was said to have driven some spectators mad.
Esta peça de Marlowe, um dos mais importantes dramaturgos conterrâneos e contemporâneos a Shakespeare, foi escrita em 1588 ou 1592, parte em verso parte em prosa. É provável que tenha sido baseada em
