On 22 November 1602, the Diary of Philip Henslowe recorded a 4 payment to Samuel Rowley and William Bird for additions to the play, which suggests a revival soon after that date. The Admiral's Men performed Doctor Faustus twenty-five times in the three years between October 1594 and October 1597. It is the most controversial Elizabethan play outside of Shakespeare, with few critics coming to any agreement as to the date or the nature of the text. Doctor Faustus was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe's death and at least twelve years after the first performance of the play. Goethe was aware of Marlowe’s play and greatly admired its composition, but he apparently had not read it by the time he completed Faust I.The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe - From The Quarto of 1604 - Edited by Alexander Dyce - The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the German story Faust, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power, experience, pleasure and knowledge. Despite its unevenness, Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus became a staple of Elizabethan theater and a canonical text of the Western tradition. This has often been cited as evidence for the inherent modernism of the text. In terms of its composition, however, the text uses dialogue and monologue in ways that are uncharacteristic for the time. the pairing of good and evil angels who address the protagonist-and shares with the popular dramas of its age the tendency to juxtapose the ridiculous and the serious. Marlowe’s text also adopts traditional elements of the morality play-e.g. He incorporated some of the more farcical scenes from this source, and at times quotes from it verbatim. His source for the theme was a translation of the German Historia, titled Historie of the damnable Life, and deserved Death of Doctor Iohn Faustus (1592). 1592) is believed to be the first dramatization of the (Germanic) Faust legend.
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