Doctor Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

⏱ 8 minDrama

The great scholar Faustus, restless with all human knowledge, sells his soul to the devil for four-and-twenty years of magic and power, and squanders them, racing toward a damnation he cannot escape. Marlowe's towering tragedy of overreaching.

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