Doctor Faustus (play)

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:play
gptkbp:alternativeName gptkb:Faustus
gptkb:The_Tragicall_History_of_D._Faustus
gptkbp:author gptkb:Christopher_Marlowe
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:England
gptkbp:dateWritten c. 1592
gptkbp:firstPublished 1604
gptkbp:fullTitle gptkb:The_Tragical_History_of_the_Life_and_Death_of_Doctor_Faustus
gptkbp:genre gptkb:Elizabethan_theatre
gptkb:tragedy
gptkbp:influenced later Faust literature
gptkbp:influencedBy medieval morality plays
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:literaryPeriod gptkb:Renaissance
gptkbp:mainCharacter gptkb:Doctor_Faustus
gptkb:Mephistopheles
gptkbp:notableAdaptation film adaptations
opera by Gounod
gptkbp:notableCharacter gptkb:Lucifer
gptkb:Robin
gptkb:The_Pope
gptkb:Rafe
gptkb:Wagner
gptkb:Evil_Angel
gptkb:Good_Angel
gptkb:Emperor_Charles_V
gptkb:Cornelius
gptkb:Helen_of_Troy
gptkb:Old_Man
gptkb:Valdes
gptkbp:notableQuote Hell is just a frame of mind.
Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships?
gptkbp:notableRelease 1604 quarto
1616 quarto
gptkbp:numberOfActs 5
gptkbp:publishedBy Valentine Simmes (first quarto printer)
gptkbp:setting gptkb:Germany
gptkbp:source gptkb:Faust_legend
gptkbp:structure prologue and epilogue by Chorus
gptkbp:subject Renaissance humanism
magic and the occult
pact with the devil
sin and repentance
gptkbp:theme ambition
power
knowledge
redemption
damnation
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Good_Angel
gptkb:Dktr._Faustus_(version)
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Doctor Faustus (play)