Faustus Critics Flashcards

(7 cards)

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jeffery

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‘faustus is a vulgar sorcerer, tempted to sell his soul to the devil for the ordinary price of sensual pleasure’

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wagner

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believes that the struggle between passion and reason, god and satan is not fully presented

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3
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hallam

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more a collection of sketches than a masterpiece of drama

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4
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hazlitt

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‘a personification of the pride of will and the eagerness of curiosity, sublimed beyond the reach of fear and remorse’

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5
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maitland

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congratulates marlowe for his deep exploration and understanding of human nature

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taine

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‘the living, struggling, natural, personal man…slave of his passions…moulded by his lusts’

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lewes

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‘to have saved him at last would have been to violate the legend, and to outrage their moral sense’

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