by Christopher Marlowe · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437604725
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«Fausto» is the play by Christopher Marlowe, published by Ediciones Cátedra in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
Doctor Faustus, a scholar dissatisfied with human knowledge, decides to make a pact with dark forces and unleashes the moral dilemmas that marked the myth of Renaissance man. The play explores ambition, the limits of knowledge, and the tragic consequences of that pact, in a drama with tension, morality, and supernatural elements.
Edition prepared by Julio César Santoyo and José Miguel Santamaría. Belongs to the Letras Universales collection and is the sixth edition, published in 2004.
Of interest to literature students and readers of classical theater, especially those who want to discover one of the sources of the Faust myth.
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.
