#faustus

Don't sell your freedom to the government. The devil always gets his due.

As discussed in my previous article ( Christopher Marlowe, a sixteenth-century Renaissance playwright, presents the pursuit of higher knowledge as something that should be limited to those who know how

Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (a sixteenth-century tragic play about a man who sells his soul to the devil for knowledge) is a text that warns readers against the pursuit

Doctor Faustus, a well-respected German scholar, grows dissatisfied with the limits of traditional forms of knowledge-logic, medicine, law, and religion-and decides that he wants to learn to practice magic.