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... Faustus . Let's go , perhaps , to the Red Bull Theatre , one of the less aristocratic show places of Elizabethan London , and see a performance of Dr. Faustus . It will be swift - moving , com- ical , and terrifying by turns , and ...
... Faustus . Let's go , perhaps , to the Red Bull Theatre , one of the less aristocratic show places of Elizabethan London , and see a performance of Dr. Faustus . It will be swift - moving , com- ical , and terrifying by turns , and ...
Page 113
... Faustus , at all times , in what form or shape soever he please . I , John Faustus , of Wertenberg , Doctor , by these presents , do give both body and soul to Lucifer , Prince of the East , and his minister , Mephistophilis ; and ...
... Faustus , at all times , in what form or shape soever he please . I , John Faustus , of Wertenberg , Doctor , by these presents , do give both body and soul to Lucifer , Prince of the East , and his minister , Mephistophilis ; and ...
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... FAUSTUS ) And so it ends , the ancient story of the man who gained the whole world at the loss of his immortal soul . To the Elizabethan audience with whom we have pretended to min- gle , it was a performance filled with explosions of ...
... FAUSTUS ) And so it ends , the ancient story of the man who gained the whole world at the loss of his immortal soul . To the Elizabethan audience with whom we have pretended to min- gle , it was a performance filled with explosions of ...
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