FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DRFAUSTUS BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
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Henry five
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Elizabeth one
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Henry six
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Henry eight
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Detailed explanation-1: -Though the Morality Plays began in the reign of Edward (about 1340) the old extant form of these plays is from the reign of Henry VI (1422-1471) Such as the “Castle of Constancy, Humanity, Spirit, Will, and Understanding.
Detailed explanation-2: -morality play, also called morality, an allegorical drama popular in Europe especially during the 15th and 16th centuries, in which the characters personify moral qualities (such as charity or vice) or abstractions (as death or youth) and in which moral lessons are taught.
Detailed explanation-3: -Faustus as a Morality Play: The play may largely be called a morality play. By selling his soul to the devil, Faustus lives a blasphemous life full of sterile and sensual pleasures for only 24 years. He criticises Christianity by insulting the Pope with the Holy Fathers of Rome.
Detailed explanation-4: -In this interpretation, Doctor Faustus provides a clear-cut message: the cost of sin is always higher than its potential benefits, and the salvation of one’s soul matters more than the ability to fly, to taunt the Pope or to conjure up Helen of Troy.
Detailed explanation-5: -Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus was published in 1592 and appears to be an example of a Renaissance tragedy.