Doctor Faustus (play, 1604)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Doctor_Faustus_(play,_1604)
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:play
gptkbp:author gptkb:Christopher_Marlowe
gptkbp:basedOn gptkb:Faust_legend
gptkbp:firstPerformed early 1590s
gptkbp:fullTitle gptkb:The_Tragical_History_of_the_Life_and_Death_of_Doctor_Faustus
gptkbp:genre tragedy
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Doctor Faustus (play, 1604)
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Faust_(opera_by_Gounod)
gptkb:Goethe's_Faust
gptkbp:influencedBy medieval morality plays
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:literaryPeriod Elizabethan theatre
gptkbp:mainCharacter gptkb:Doctor_Faustus
gptkb:Mephistopheles
gptkbp:notableAdaptation Doctor Faustus (film, 1967)
Doctor Faustus (opera, 1947)
gptkbp:notableQuote Hell is just a frame of mind.
Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships?
gptkbp:publicationDate 1604
gptkbp:publishedBy gptkb:Valentine_Simmes
gptkbp:setting gptkb:Germany
gptkbp:structure five acts
gptkbp:subject gptkb:magic
Renaissance humanism
damnation
pact with the devil
gptkbp:theme ambition
good vs evil
knowledge
temptation
damnation
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Mephistopheles_(role)
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7