FREE NOTES: CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE: DOCTOR FAUSTUS
Drama: Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus Qustion : Discuss the Renaissance elements in Doctor Faustus. Answer: Christopher Marlowe, including the Elizabethan University wits, is significantly inspired as well as influenced by the Renaissance spirit which takes it origin in Italy. An eminent critic says, “Rabel and Pioneer, though he was, Marlowe was yet a product of his own age. The introduction of the Good and Bad angels, of the minor devils and of the seven deadly sins in Dr. Faustus links him with the drama of the later middle Ages. Faustus’s inexhaustible thirst for knowledge, his worship of beauty, his passion for the classics, his scepticism, his interest in sorcery and magic, his admiration for Machiavelli and for superhuman ambition and will in the persuit of ideals of beauty or power, or whatever they may be, prove the author to be a man of the Renaissance.” Faustus is an in carnation of the Renaissance s