Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Dr Faustus Context
- Morality Play - The main character is tempted but normally recounts
Anmerkungen:
- This is how Dr Faustus differs from other morality plays as the love from God is no longer there
- Gothic Text
Anmerkungen:
- Features of a Gothic text:
Supernatural elements
Pathetic fallacy
Antagonist
Movement against enlightenment
Protagonist transgresses
Moral (sometimes)
Negative action
- First performed - 1593
- A Text - 1604
- B Text -1616
- Is meant to be performed - remember audience
- Renaissance
- Protestant
- James I Bible
- Anti-Catholic
Anmerkungen:
- Can be seen in Dr Faustus - e.g. The pope scene
- Martin Luther
- 1512 Protestant movement (Germany)
- Dr Faustus based on
German folk tale
- New translations of classics
- Marlowe
- Died after being stabbed in the eye after a fight in the pub
- Died 1593