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Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
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Summary
Plot Overview
Summary & Analysis
Prologue
Scene 1
Scenes 2–4
Scenes 5–6
Chorus 2–Scene 8
Chorus 3–Scene 9
Scenes 10–11
Chorus 4–Epilogue
Characters
Character List
Faustus
Mephastophilis
Main Ideas
Themes
Motifs
Symbols
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Important Quotes Explained
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Sin versus Redemption
Medieval versus Renaissance
Power and Ambition
Free Will versus Fate
Dark Magic
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Prologue–Act I, Scene 2
Act I, Scene 3–Act II, Scene 1
Act II, Scenes 2–3
Act III, Chorus–Scene 2
Act III, Scene 3–Act IV, Scene 2
Act IV, Scenes 3–4
Act IV, Scenes 5–7
Act V, Scenes 1–2
Act V, Scene 3–Chorus
Quotes By Character
Faustus
Mephostophilis
Good Angel and Bad Angel
Chorus
Lucifer
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Prologue
Scene 1
Scenes 2-4
Scenes 5-6
Chorus 2-Scene 8
Chorus 3-Scene 9
Scenes 10-11
Chorus 4-Epilogue
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1
of 5
Christopher Marlowe was an actor, poet, and playwright during the reign of which monarch?
Elizabeth I
James I
Victoria
Henry VIII
2
of 5
What religion was Marlowe suspected of having converted to, leading Cambridge to try to withhold his degree?
Buddhism
Judaism
Islam
Catholicism
3
of 5
The immediate source of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is most likely an anonymous German work dating from ___.
1390
1453
1501
1587
4
of 5
How many plays did Marlowe produce before being killed in a tavern brawl in 1593?
Two
Five
Seven
Ten
5
of 5
Johannes Faustus, the real-life figure to whom the tale about selling one's became attached, was ___.
A doctor
An astrologer
A schoolteacher
A German prince
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