by Christopher Marlowe · Pearson Education · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781405867757
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«Doctor Faustus» is the adapted edition of Christopher Marlowe's tragedy, published by Pearson Education in paperback (64 pages, in English).
Doctor Faustus is a scholar who, dissatisfied with the limits of human knowledge, signs a pact with the devil in his own blood and acquires abilities that arouse the admiration of the whole world. But that deal has two sides: excessive ambition always ends up having a price.
Level 4 of the Pearson English Readers collection, published in 2008 and based on Christopher Marlowe's original tragedy.
For intermediate-level students of English as a foreign language and for young people and adults who wish to practice reading in English.
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe, was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights. Based upon the "many imitations" of his play Tamburlaine, modern scholars consider him to have been the foremost dramatist in London in the years just before his mysterious early death. Some scholars also believe that he greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was baptised in the same year as Marlowe and later succeeded him as the preeminent Elizabethan playwright. Marlowe was the first to achieve critical reputation for his use of blank verse, which became the standard for the era. His plays are distinguished by their overreaching protagonists. Themes found within Marlowe's literary works have been noted as humanistic with realistic emotions, which some scholars find difficult to reconcile with Marlowe's "anti-intellectualism" and his catering to the prurient tastes of his Elizabethan audiences for generous displays of extreme physical violence, cruelty, and bloodshed.
