Prologue

Question 1

Chorus: Love

Answer 1

‘sporting in the dalliance of love’

Question 2

Chorus: Deeds

Answer 2

‘pomp of proud audacious deeds’

Question 3

Chorus: Refers to Marlowe perhaps as puppeteer

Answer 3

‘our muse to vaunt his heavenly verse’

Question 4

Chorus: Alliteration

Answer 4

‘perform / The form of Faustus’ fortunes, good or bad’

Question 5

Chorus: Faustus as naive

Answer 5

‘we appeal, / And speak for Faustus in his infancy’

Question 6

Chorus: Faustus’ parents

Answer 6

‘born, of parents base of stock,’

Question 7

Chorus: Divinity

Answer 7

‘he profits in divinity’

Question 8

Chorus: Faustus blessed with education

Answer 8

‘The fruitful plot of scholarism grac’d, / That shortly he was grac’d with doctor’s name’

Question 9

Chorus: Faustus is successful

Answer 9

‘Excelling all, and sweetly can dispute…’

Question 10

Chorus: Cunning and excess

Answer 10

‘Till, swollen with cunning of a self-conceit,’

Question 11

Chorus: Allusion to Icarus

Answer 11

‘His waxen wings did mount above his reach, / And, melting, heavens conspir’d his overthrow’

Question 12

Chorus: Excess

Answer 12

‘And glutted now with learning’s golden gifts,’

Question 13

Chorus: Curses and devils

Answer 13

• ‘falling to a devilish exercise’

- ‘cursed necromancy’

Question 14

Chorus: Magic as a treat

Answer 14

‘Nothing so sweet as magic to him; / Which he prefers before his chiefest bliss’

Question 15

Chorus: Parallel with ‘There was a company’ segway

Answer 15

‘And this is the man that in his study sits.’