文档介绍：THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
FROM THE QUARTO OF 1616.
THE TRAGICAL
HISTORY OF DOCTOR
FAUSTUS BY
CHRISTOPHER
MARLOWE FROM THE
QUARTO OF 1616.
EDITED BY THE REV.
ALEXANDER DYCE.
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THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
FROM THE QUARTO OF 1616.
DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
THE POPE. THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY. RAYMOND, king of
Hungary. DUKE OF SAXONY. BRUNO. DUKE OF VANHOLT.
MARTINO,> FREDERICK, > gentlemen. BENVOLIO, >
FAUSTUS. VALDES, > friends to FAUSTUS. CORNELIUS, >
WAGNER, servant to FAUSTUS. Clown. ROBIN. DICK. Vintner. Horse-
courser. Carter. An Old Man. Scholars, Cardinals, ARCHBISHOP OF
RHEIMS, Bishops, Monks, Friars, Soldiers, and Attendants.
DUCHESS OF VANHOLT. Hostess.
LUCIFER. BELZEBUB. MEPHISTOPHILIS. Good Angel. Evil
Angel. The Seven Deadly Sins. Devils. Spirits in the shapes of
ALEXANDER THE GREAT, of his Paramour, of DARIUS, and of
HELEN.
Chorus.
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THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
FROM THE QUARTO OF 1616.
Enter CHORUS.
CHORUS. Not marching in the fields of Thrasymene, Where Mars did
mate the warlike Carthagens;<1> Nor sporting in the dalliance of love, In
courts of kings where state is overturn'd; Nor in the pomp of proud
audacious deeds, Intends our Muse to vaunt her<2> heavenly verse: Only
this, gentles,--we must now perform The form of Faustus' fortunes, good
or bad: And now to patient judgments we appeal, And speak for Faustus in
his infancy. Now is he born of parents base of stock, In Germany, within a
town call'd Rhodes: At riper years, to Wittenberg he went, Whereas his
kinsmen chiefly brought him up. So much he profits in divinity, That
shortly he was grac'd with doctor's name, Excelling all, and sweetly can
dispute In th' heavenly matters of theology; Till swoln with cunning,
of<3> a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And,
melting, heavens conspir'd his overthrow; For, falling to a devilish