Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
1968 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Doctor Faustus by Clifford Williams. Eric Porter (Faustus) is watching the Seven Deadly Sins' show

Doctor Faustus
Read this essay, concerning the context and importance of Marlowe's play.

Elizabethan Perspective on the Occult
"During Faustus' time there were an estimated 900,000 atheists in a population of four to five million, although the estimate was made by a Spanish ambassador."

Faust - Goethe
Find notes on Goethe's Faust, like this statement: "Considered a play, it rarely is performed. Probably Goethe didn’t expect it to be performed. It is a work of ideas, not of dramatic action."

Faust Among Equals
Kyla Ward writes about the origins of the Faust legend, saying, "There are those that say the devil hears his name. If this is so, then writing about him is a damning proposition."

Faust Legend
"In the early 16th century there sprang up in Germany tales of a magician, Dr. Johannes Faust, or Faustus, who was rumored to be in league with the devil."

Faust on Film
"While the idea of pacts with the devil predates the Christian era, its supposed greatest proponent, an actual person, first surfaces in a 1507 letter that portrays him as a shameless faker ­ only a 1543 sermon first alluding to his carrying off by the devil 18 years earlier."

Faust
In this review of Murnau's film, "Faust," the reviewer writes, "Faust may be his least subtle film - one that builds its power through large quick strokes but nonetheless maintains the kind of intimacy with its characters that his other later films do."

Faustus' Form of Magic
Faustus originally intends for his magic to do good: to increase his intellect and his power so he may help others and possibly ease his finding a mate so he may start a family.

Jan Svankmajer: Faust [Lekce Faust] (1994)
Find a synopsis, commentary and related information on the 1994 film "Lekce Faust" concerning the legendary and literary elements incorporated into the film.

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