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A review by liambetts
Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
3.0
I read this for an essay I am writing. This version of Faust is more true to what I had heard of the story before reading Goethe, but I will say that I still much preferred Goethe's version (the Kauffmann translation).
The differences: In Marlowe, Faust calls the devil, and in Goethe the devil comes to him. In Marlowe, the tragedy is one of Faust's own, in Goethe the tragedy is as much Gretchen's as it is his. In Marlowe, Faust falls, in Goethe, he ascends. Etc.
It was interesting to compare the two, considering that Goethe's was written nearly two hundred years later.
The differences: In Marlowe, Faust calls the devil, and in Goethe the devil comes to him. In Marlowe, the tragedy is one of Faust's own, in Goethe the tragedy is as much Gretchen's as it is his. In Marlowe, Faust falls, in Goethe, he ascends. Etc.
It was interesting to compare the two, considering that Goethe's was written nearly two hundred years later.