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Dr Faustus is a short play written by Christopher Marlowe. The play is a masterful insight into the paradoxical soul of mankind and its ironically self inflicted corruption. The play could be classification as a theological allegory. It can be assumed that the play specifically speaks to the religious motivations of the time, but can…

A monologue from the play by Christopher Marlowe NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Masterpieces of the English Drama. Ed. William Lyon Phelps. New York: American Book Company, 1912. FAUSTUS: Ah, Faustus.Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,And then thou must be damn’d perpetually!Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,That time may cease,…

Bucketed has performed on more than 90 albums, both solo and in collaboration with many other artists. Bucketed was born Brian Patrick Carroll in 1969. Brian began playing the guitar at the age of twelve. He had stated in an interview with Guitar Magazine in 1996, “l did not become serious until the following summer…

Dr. Faustus, decidedly a tragic play, contains a number of comic scenes. It is a matter of sheer conjecture whether Marlowe wrote these scenes himself or allowed someone else to write them in deference to the prevailing taste of the times, because, Marlowe in the Prologue to Tambularine had contemptuously discarded buffoonery or clownage as…

Charles Dickens was born near Portsmouth: his father was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office. His father didn’t make much money here and the family wasn’t coping well. The happiest period of Dickens’s troubled childhood was spent in Chatham, although the family moved around a great deal. By early 1824, the family was in…