Christopher Marlowe 156493

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Christopher Marlowe (1564-93)
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Doctor Faustus1588
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1564 born in Canterbury, father a shoemaker1579
Kings School, Canterbury1580 Corpus Christi
College, Cambridge1581 first government
service1584 Cambridge BA1586 Dido, Queen of
Carthage written with Thomas Nashe blank
verse from the Aeneid Ovids love poetry1587
Cambridge MA, Tamburlaine I and II written,
performed1588 prison for brawling Doctor
Faustus written
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1590 The Jew of Malta written Tamburlaine
published anonymously1592 Edward II, The
Massacre at Paris written Shakespeares first
plays written1593 Hero and Leander, love poem
charged with atheism murdered in a
tavern1594 Dido, Edward II published1598 Hero
and Leander published1599 Certain of Ovids
Elegies1602 All Ovids Elegies1604 Doctor
Faustus (A Text) published1616 Doctor Faustus
(B Text) published1633 The Jew of Malta
published
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sexviolencepowerunorthodoxyoverreaching
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power and pride
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Doctor Faustus1588
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PrologueThe form of Faustus fortunes, good or
bad(9)Now is he born, his parents base of
stock,In Germany(12-13)
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So soon he profits in divinity,The fruitful
plot of scholarism graced,That shortly he was
graced with doctors name,Excelling all whose
sweet delights disputesIn heavenly matters of
theology(16-20)
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His waxen wings did mount above his reach,And
melting, heavens conspired his overthrow,For,
falling to a devilish exercise,And glutted more
with learnings golden gifts,He surfeits upon
cursed necromancy.(22-6)
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I.iFaustus in his studyreviews and rejects the
traditional curriculumLatin and Greek as
evidence of expertisechooses magic
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Settle thy studies, Faustus, and beginto sound
the depth of that thou wilt profess.Having
commenced, be a divine in show,Yet level at the
end of every art.(31-4)
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medieval universityfaculties
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• higher faculties
• theology
• law
• medicine

• lower faculty
• arts

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• trivium
• grammar
• rhetoric
• dialectic

• quadrivium
• arithmetic
• geometry
• astronomy
• music

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• undergraduate
• logic
• moral philosophy
• natural philosophy
• metaphysics

• graduate
• medicine
• law
• theology

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theologyQueen of the sciencesFaustus has
reached the summittheology is the highest
disciplinedivinity
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live and die in Aristotles works.Sweet
Analytics, tis thou hast ravished
me!(35-6)Is to dispute well logics chiefest
end?Affords this art no greater miracle?Then
read no more, thou hast attained that
end.(38-40)
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Galen, come! Be a physician, Faustus, heap up
gold,And be eternized for some wondrous
cure.(42-5)The end of physic is our bodies
health.Why, Faustus, hast thou not attained that
end?Is not thy common talk found aphorisms?Are
not thy bills hung up as monuments?(47-50)
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Wouldst thou make men to live eternally?Or,
being dead, raise them to life again?Then this
profession were to be esteemed.Physic
farewell!(54-7)
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Where is Justinian? A pretty case of paltry
legacies.Such is the subject of the
InstituteAnd universal body of the Law.This
study fits a mercenary drudge,Who aims at
nothing but external trash Too servile and
illiberal for me.(57-66)
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When all is done, divinity is best.
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at this pointno surprisestheology is bestin
the traditional curriculumin the microcosm of
the universityin the macrocosm
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Jeromes Bible, Faustus, view it
wellStipendium peccati mors est.
Ha!Stipendium The reward of sin is death
thats hard. we must sin,And so consequently
die.Ay, we must die an everlasting death.What
doctrine call you thus Che serà, serà?What
will be, shall be? Divinity, adieu.(67-78)
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sin causes deaththeologically, thinks
Faustus,death is inevitablephysical and
spiritualthats hardso move on to magicavoid
deaththats easy?
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These metaphysics of magiciansAnd necromantic
books are heavenly.Lines, circles, signs,
letters and characters Ay, these are those
that Faustus most desires.O, what a world of
profit and delight,Of power, of honor, of
omnipotence,Is promised to the studious artisan!
A sound magician is a mighty god.Here,
Faustus, try thy brains to get a deity.(79-94)
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summons Valdes and Corneliusadvised by Good and
Evil Angelsplans what to do with his
magicwealth, sensuality, conquest, bravado,
curiosity, sillinesswill learn magic from Valdes
and Cornelius
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Know that your words have won me at the lastTo
practice magic and concealed arts.Philosophy is
odious and obscureBoth law and physic are for
petty witsDivinity is basest of the
three,Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible and
vileTis magic, magic that hath ravished
me.(135-43)
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Valdes and Cornelius explainthat magic requires
learninglanguage, astrology, natural
philosophyreading magic booksmastering magic
spellsfor fame, sex, power and wealthFaustus
determines to do magic even if it kills him
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I.iistudents speak to Faustus worried about
his reputation and welfareWagner jokes with
themparody of logic, law, medicine and
theology(comic scene)
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I.iiiFaustus conjures Mephastophilisby calling
on God, blasphemously, sacrilegiously
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Within this circle is Jehovahs name,Forward
and backward anagrammatized.(251-2)
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Mephastophilis appears as a Fransciscan
friarFaustus arrogantly thinks hes in
controlbut Mephastophilis is honest with him
about hell, himself and Lucifer
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F How comes it then that thou art out of
hell?M Why, this is hell, nor am I out of
it.(321-20)
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his purpose is to take Faustus soulexplaining
that Lucifers sin was prideHell is wherever the
damned areFaustus accepts eternal death for 24
years of service
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I.ivWagner and a ClownClown trades his soul to
Wagner for a piece of meat
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II.iFaustus waversworries about
damnationMephastophilis tempts him
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I will be thy slave and wait on thee,And give
thee more than thou has wit to ask.(486-7)
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Mephastophilis insists on formalizing the
contractFaustus still worriesMephastophilis
distracts him with apparitionsFaustus signsand
quizzes Mephastophilis about hell
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Mephastophilis assures Faustusthat he will go to
hellFaustus asks Mephastophilis for a
wifeMephastophilis promises whores
instead,giving Faustus a book of spells,
astrology and natural magic
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II.iiRobin, an ostler, and Rafe, his
servant,illiterates, reading a magic book
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II.iiiFaustus wants heaven, not hellbut
Mephastophilis tells Faustus that mankind is
greater than heavenFaustus wants to renounce
magic and repentGood and Evil Angels advise
himhe cant repenthe despairsas Angels
struggle over his soul
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long ere this I should have slain myself,Had
not sweet pleasure conquered deep
despair.(653-4)
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but Fautus regains confidencequizzes
Mephastophilis about cosmologyMephastophilis
refuses to say that God created the world
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Faustus still waversthe Good and Evil Angels
returnFaustus praysbut Mephastophilis returns
with Lucifer and Beelzebub
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they accuse him of breach of contractterrified,
Faustus recants his prayerLucifer conjures a
vision,the Seven Deadly Sins, to distract
Faustus
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IIIChorusWagner explains that Faustus has
become a magical tourist
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III.iFaustus describes his travels with
Mephastophilisthrough Germany, France and
ItalyMephastophilis describes Rome in
detailFaustus can become invisible,to play
practical jokes
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Faustus snatches the Popes food and attacks
himMephastophilis worries
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we shall be cursed with bell, book and
candle.(907)
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but the friars only singa mock litany to
exorcize the attackers
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III.iiRobin and Rafe torment a bartender
withsleight of hand, gibberish, a parody of
magicbut Mephastophilis is summoned, angry
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How am I vexed with these villains charms!From
Constantinople am I hither come,Only for
pleasure of these damned slaves.(1026-8)
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IVChorusFaustus is back home in
Germanyvisits Emperor Charles V
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IV.Ithe Emperor wants a demonstrationMaster
Doctor Faustus, I have heard some strange report
of thy knowledge in the black art.(1040-1)
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he wants to see Alexander, his ancestor,and his
mistressa knight mocks FaustusMephastophilis
summons spirits who look like Alexander and his
paramourFaustus gives the knight horns,showing
him to be a cuckold
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And, sir knight, hereafter speak well of
scholars.(1129)
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But Faustus realizes that time is shorthe wants
to go home, and despairsWhat art thou,
Faustus, but a man condemned to die?Thy fatal
time doth draw to final end.(1170-1)
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Faustus sells his horse to a horse-dealerbut
its a magical horse, and turns into haythe
horse-dealer pulls a leg off Faustusbut its a
fake leg
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IV.iiFaustus brings grapes in winterfor a
Dukes pregnant wife
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V.iWagner thinks that Faustus intends to diehe
has given Wagner all his thingsI think my
master means to die shortly,For he hath given to
me all his goods.(1266-7)
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students enter, debating who was the most
beautiful womanFaustus asks Mephastophilis to
conjure Helen
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an Old Man debates Faustus about
repentanceFaustus despairs
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Mephastophilis gives him a dagger and threatens
himFaustus confirms his contractHelen enters,
distracting Faustus with her beautyFaustus is
dazzled
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Was this the face that launched a thousand
shipsAnd burnt the topless towers of
Ilium?(1357-8)
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the Old Man enters as Faustus leaves with Helen
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V.iistudents also try to persuade Faustus to
repentbut Faustus is prideful in his despairhe
thinks himself more unforgivable than Satanhe is
unable to call on Godeven though Gods mercy is
infinitehe thinks himself doomed
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V.iihe realizes that his pleasure was
worthlessand that his time is uphe tries to
bargain for a lesser punishmentat midnight,
devils enter and drag him awayas he promises to
burn his books
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Adders and serpents, let me breathe awhile!Ugly
hell, gape not! Come not, Lucifer!Ill burn my
books ah, Mephastophilis!
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ChorusFaustus is gone regard his hellish
fall,Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the
wiseOnly to wonder at unlawful thingsWhose
deepness doth entice such forward witsTo
practice more than heavenly power
permits.(1513-17)