Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
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## Contents

- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Christopher Marlowe
  - 1.1 Marlowe: the man
  - 1.2 Doctor Faustus
  - 1.3 Reading a Renaissance play
- 2 Reading Doctor Faustus
  - 2.1 Act 1, Scene 1: "Yet art thou still but Faustus, and a man"
    - 2.1.1 The morality play
    - 2.1.2 Faustus's first speech
    - 2.1.3 The comic scenes
  - 2.2 Act 2, Scene 1: Faustus and God
  - 2.3 Acts 3 and 4: What does Faustus achieve?
  - 2.4 Act 5, Scene 2: Faustus's last soliloquy
  - 2.5 Morality play or tragedy?
- 3 Hero and author
- Conclusion
- Keep on learning
- References
- Acknowledgements

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