UAH Theatre's century-spanning season ends with Christopher Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus." A contemporary of Shakespeare, Marlowe was more famous than Shakespeare during their lifetime, and this dark ...

Painting of an unknown 21-year-old man, widely supposed to be Christopher Marlowe (1585). Corpus Christi College In Shakespeare’s time, about a quarter of all plays were collaboratively written by two ...

The Tragical Historie of Dr. Faustus is Christopher Marlowe’s greatest play. The current off-Broadway effort by the Phoenix Theater’s repertory company is not so much a revival as a disinterment. It ...

A complex play exploring the complex nature of the relationship between man and God, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus follows the story of a doctor, who, fed up with scholarly pursuits, sells ...

Jerry Brotton explores how with Dr Faustus, Kit Marlowe pushed the boundaries of what was permissible for Elizabethan drama and its writers even further. Show more Historian Jerry Brotton presents a ...