Marlowe's Theater of Night: Doctor Faustus and Capital

Halpern, Richard

doi:10.1353/elh.2004.0026

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“…15 However, it is rather a moral education and discovery during which he is not degraded but humanized. Faustus as a learned man enters into a compact with Satan, just as characters do with the common witches in other plays, in order to obtain power and the knowledge of secret things.…”

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Dragons on the Jacobean Stage

Ahmed¹

2014

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(1622)). These plays stage supernatural entities such as male witches, magicians and dragons. What binds all these plays together is having dragon(s) controlled by a magician. It is important to investigate the stage directions of the dragons in making their exits and entrances, what role they have in the plays, and how they affect the character of the drama. This study examines some sorcerer plays with special concentration on the character of the sorcerers, looking at the kinds of rituals and magic they make. Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, Barnes's Alexander VI, and Rowley's Merlin are male magicians and, each has a different role, being assisted by spirits or devils. I will investigate their role in each play and how they relate to witchcraft.

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confidence: 99%