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A review by casparb
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
4.0
Loved this one - read initially a long time ago without paying a great deal of attention due to being young and silly but a spectacular reread. Themes include: ...gay? and dismemberment. 4.5.
Of course the language has a riotous energy that seems to barrel toward the future of literature with no force of heaven nor hell capable of preventing. Ambiguity is my order of the day - not to be resolved of. I think Marlowe's readings of churches and empire is so convincing because he is above the tedium of moral uncertainty. This is ambiguity on more fascinating planes- metaphysical-spiritual-lexical-authorial and so forth. Delicious. Yes please all day
Of course the language has a riotous energy that seems to barrel toward the future of literature with no force of heaven nor hell capable of preventing. Ambiguity is my order of the day - not to be resolved of. I think Marlowe's readings of churches and empire is so convincing because he is above the tedium of moral uncertainty. This is ambiguity on more fascinating planes- metaphysical-spiritual-lexical-authorial and so forth. Delicious. Yes please all day