1. Name: Jani Hetal Umiyashankar
Semester : 1
Roll No : 12
Paper No : 1
Course No : 1 (The Renaissance
Literature)
Presentation Topic : Doctor
Faustus Critical Analysis
2. Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
Born : February 26,
1564, Canterbury, United
Kingdom
Died : May 30, 1593, Deptford,
United Kingdom
Full name : Christopher Marlowe
Books : Hero and Leander, Doctor
Faustus, More
Education : Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge, University of
Cambridge, The King's School,
Canterbury
Play: Dr faustus , Tamburlaine,
The Jew of malta.
3. Introduction
Christopher Marlowe was an English dramatist, poet, actor,
playwright and translator of the Elizabethan age. Marlowe was the
famous Elizabethan tragedian.
Doctor Faustus is a Heroic Tragedy there are two tragic conflict in
Doctor Faustus : one between rival view of the nature of evil and
another between the choice of good and evil.
Doctor Faustus also a christian tragedy. In this Tragedy Doctor
Faustus is Tragic hero.
Doctor Faustus is the Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor
Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story,
in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge.