AO5 Flashcards
Nicholl - “serves an essentially
reactionary purpose”
Hazlitt - “Faustus was not in fact acting to fulfil his own selfish desires but as…
a martyr to collect knowledge for all of us”
Lewes - “to have saved him would have been to…
violate the legend”
Taine - ‘Faustus is the living, struggling, natural personal man, not the…
philosophic type which Goethe has created, but a primitive and genuine man’
Wilhelm - ‘Marlowe’s Faustus is anything but…
A hero”
Symonds - “A man in revolt against the
Eternal laws of his own nature and the world’
Dawkins - ‘the story of a Renaissance man who had to pay…
the medieval price for being one’
Billington - ‘Jeffrey Skilling: a Marlovian
Over reacher’
Billington - ‘difficult to feel…
sympathy for such a man’
Berry - ‘capitalism exposed
as con-trick and illusion’
Billington - ‘global complicity in
money worship’
Humanist Criticism
Faustus becomes a mythical figure, an archetype of the human desire to cross the boundaries that appear to set the limits of human capacity
Psychological Criticism
Masculine agression and narcissism can be seen in both
Plays