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Dr Faustus quotes Flashcards

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Act 1 Scene 1: “Be a physician Faustus…

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…Heap up gold, and be eternised for some wondrous cure”- Faustus monologue

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Act 1 Scene 1: “fly to India for gold… Fill the public…

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…schools with silk… chase the Prince of Parma from our land”
Faustus
-prince of parma was a spanish general closely involved in plans to invade England in the 1580’s

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Prologue: “At riper years to…

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…Wittenberg he went”- chorus]
bithplace of protestantism

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Prologue: three phrases from the semantic field of religious terminology

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‘heavenly verse’
‘patient judgement’
‘heavenly matters of theology’
‘devilish

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Prologue: “Not marching in the fields…

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…of Trasimere…nor sporting in the dalliance of love’

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Act 1 Scene 1: “Where’s thy master?”- fist scholar, what was Wagner’s response?

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“God in heaven knows”- Wagner
“Yes, I know but that follows not”

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Prologue: “his waxen wings did…

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…mount above his reach, and melting, heavens conspired his overthrow”- Chorus
-icarus reference related to ego against god
-hubris

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Prologue: “falling to…

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…devilish exercise”- Chorus

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Act 1 Scene 1: “These metaphysics of magicians…

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…and nectromantic books are heavenly”- Faustus

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Act 1 Scene 1: “gaze not on it, lest…

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…it tempt thy soul and heap god’s heavy wrath upon thy head”- Good Angel to Faustus

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Act 1 Scene 1: “be thou on earth a Jove…

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…is in the sky, Lord and commander of these elements”- Bad Angel

-Jove= the roman god Jupiter so Faustus is not ignoring the christian god’s existence he just believes he can become equal or surpass it

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Act 1 Scene 1: “Are not thy bills…

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…hung up as monuments(?)”- Faustus

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Act 1 Scene 1: “Yet art thou still but Faustus, and a man…

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…Could’st thou make men to live eternally, Or, being dead, raise them to life again, then thou profession were to be asteemed”- Faustus

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Act 1 Scene 3: “Faustus, begin thine incantations, And…

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…try if devils will obey thy hest”- Faustus

-thinks the devils will obey him and he will be master

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Act 1 Scene 3: “Thou art…

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…too ugly to attend to me”- Faustus to Mephistopheles

-Faustus later rides a dragon when he calls meph’s dragon form ugly here

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Act 1 Scene 3: “Go and return an old Franciscan friar…

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…; That holy shape becomes a devil best.”- Faustus to Mephistopheles

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Act 1 Scene 3: “I am a servant to…

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…the great Lucifer and may not follow thee without his leave.”- Mephistopheles

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Act 1 Scene 3: “abjure all godliness and…

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…pray devoutly to the prince of hell”- Meph to Faustus

-foreshadowing to how the old man says that as long as faustus still believes in god then the devil can’t take him to hell/harm him

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Act 1 scene 3: “by aspiring pride and insolence…

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…, for which God threw him from the face of heaven.”- Mephistopheles to Faustus about the devil

-mirrors the icarus analogy from the prologue

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Act 1 Scene 3: “Why, this is…

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…hell, nor am I out of it.”- Mephistopheles to Faustus

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Act 2 Scene 1: “something soundeth in mine ear:…

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…‘abjure this magic, turn to God again”- Faustus monologue

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Act 2 Scene 1: “The god thou serv’st…

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…is thine own appetite”- Faustus monologue

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The Good Angel tells Faustus to think on ‘heaven and heavenly things’ what does the Bad Angel tell Faustus to think on

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‘honour and wealth’, all the things Faustus covets

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Act 2 Scene 1: “My blood congeals…

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and I can write no more.”
“Is it unwilling I should write this bill.”- Faustus

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Act 2 Scene 1: “Is not…

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…thy soul thine own?”- Faustus

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Act 2 Scene 3: “If heaven was made…

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…for man, ‘twas made for me”- Faustus

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Act 2 Scene 3: “Tell me what made the world”- Faustus

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“I will not.”- Mephistopheles

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Act 3 Scene 1: “in eight days…

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…did bring him home again”

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Act 3 Scene 1: “to me and peter…

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…thou shalt grovelling lie and crouch before the papal dignity.”- Pope Adrian to Pope Bruno

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Act 3 Scene 1: “a flourish…

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…as he ascends”- stage direction for Pope Adrian using Pope Bruno as a stepping stool

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Act 3 Scene 1: “as the gods…

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…creep on with feet of wool”- Pope Adrian

shows him taking advantage of silent, unseen gods to dictate his own will of ‘sleeping vengeance’

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Act 3 Scene 1: “I was elected…

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…by the Emperor”- Pope Bruno

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Act 3 Scene 1: “He grows too proud…

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…in his authority”- Pope Adrian to Pope Bruno

mimics Faustus’ hubris

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Act 4 Scene 1: “Speak softly, sir, lest…

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…the devil hear you”- Martino to Benvolio about Faustus

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Benvolio’s name means benevolent

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shows hypocracy of church for claiming to be of benevolent cause but acting violently to those that do not follow their ideals

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Act 4 scene 1: “I’ll be Actaeon and turn…

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…myself to a stag”- Benvolio

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Act 4 Scene 2: “Mount aloft with them…

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…as high as heaven; Thence pitch them headlong to the lowest hell.”- Faustus to the devils about Benvolio and his soldiers

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Act 4 Scene 2: “laden with…

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…rich reward”- Benvolio

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Act 5 Scene 1: “thou hast offended…

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…like a man, do not persevere like a devil.”- the old man to Faustus

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Act 5 Scene 1: “gentle son, i…

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…speak it not in wrath or in envy of thee, but in tender love”- Old man

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Act 5 Scene 1: “His faith is great. I…

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…cannot touch his soul.”- Mephistopheles about the old man

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lucifer speaks in iambic pentameter and is said to be above rather than below in the stage directions beginning Act 5 Scene 2

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Lucifer’s placement mimics a tool used in other Jacobean plays like with Prospero in ‘The Tempest’ where he is placed above the stage to show his orchestration over the scene below

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Act 5 Scene 2: “wretched Faustus”, “fond worldling”

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fond means foolish or liked, discuss which could be meant or both

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