Verse drama · 1604

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

From the Quarto of 1604

by Christopher Marlowe

Marlowe's tragedy of the scholar who, weary of the limits of learning, sells his soul to Lucifer for twenty-four years of power and pleasure, and faces the hour of reckoning.

Contents · 20 parts

• Prologue30 lines
• Scene 1about 180 lines
• Scene 225 lines
• Scene 3about 120 lines
• Scene 446 lines
• Scene 5about 310 lines
• Chorus (before Scene 6)13 lines
• Scene 6about 100 lines
• Chorus (before Scene 7)19 lines
• Scene 717 lines
• Scene 836 lines
• Scene 977 lines
• Scene 1042 lines
• Scene 115 lines
• Scene 1217 lines
• Scene 1310 lines
• Scene 14about 100 lines
• Scene 1512 lines
• Scene 1698 lines
• Epilogue11 lines

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