Faustus critics

Question 1

Mangun

Answer 1

Uses the machinery of a morality play

Question 2

Deats (everyman)

Answer 2

Marlowe’s tormented hero is not an Everyman figure but an exceptional individual.

Question 3

Faustus as a symbol

Answer 3

• an archetypical symbol of humanity’s aspirations, follies and impossible dreams.
• Epic mode, Faustus as heroic
• ‘Base of stock’ audience condemn hierarchical society

Question 4

Ellis-Fermor (What is Faustus?)

Answer 4

• Satanic tragedy
• Miltonian school of thought.
• Echos Marlowe’s rebellious nature

Question 5

Religious reading of whole text

Answer 5

No more religious document in all of Elizabethan drama

Question 6

Religious reading of Faustus himself

Answer 6

• Agent of his own demise
• ‘Go forward Faustus in that Famous art’ Foreshadows satanic fall
• Could present as being seduced

Question 7

What do ‘heavens conspired’ and ‘twas I… that led thine eye’ do to heroic arguements?

Answer 7

Problematise the affirmament of free will

Question 8

Cheney, play deconstructs.

Answer 8

• Deconstructs calvinist theology

- Affirmament of artistic freedom

Question 9

Brooke, comedic characters

Answer 9

Faustus is burlesqued by Wagner and the Clowns