DR FAUSTUS: DRAMATURGY
The sense of incompleteness the play impresses is due to its weakness in structure being conspicuosly episodic. Not only do the supposedly comic scenes conspire to mar the overall effect, however contributory in reinforcing skepticism and cynicism in the quest of faith, but so do the scenes that provide Faustus's actions once he has Mephistophilis as his djinn (I propose a correlation there). Broadly, they are of a... continue reading
Summary of “How all occasions do inform against me”
His thoughts be ‘Bloody, or be nothing worth’. This can be taken either way since his words are idle, e.g. the blood-drinking oath and our foreknowledge (knowing the play already) of Rosencratz and Guildenstern’s fate. The sight of war gives him... continue reading
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